Word: extended
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...between the two designs is the way the trains levitate. As Manfred Wackers, chief systems analyst for Thyssen's team, puts it, "Our system is attractive. Theirs is repulsive." Meaning: the two systems use opposite ends of the magnet to lift off. In the West German model, winglike flaps extend beneath the train and fold under a T-shaped guideway. Electromagnets in the guideway are activated by a distant control station, their polarity opposite that of electromagnets in the wings. Because of the attraction between the poles, the magnets in the guideway pull on the magnets in the wings, lifting...
...head, President Daniel Ortega Saavedra spelled out his good intentions last week during celebrations to mark the ninth anniversary of the Sandinista takeover in Nicaragua. In an effort to diminish U.S. anger over the expulsion of its Ambassador to Managua two weeks ago, Ortega announced that he would extend his country's fragile cease-fire with the contras, now in its fifth month, until Aug. 30. He also called for better relations with Washington and invited the leaders of the Nicaraguan Resistance, an umbrella group of Sandinista opponents, to return to the negotiating table...
State Department officials insist that the situation is only temporary and that much of the problem could be resolved if the Soviets would extend the exit visas. Still, the red-tape tangle was more than a little ironic, coming just one month after Ronald Reagan publicly blamed the Soviet bureaucracy for impeding the flow of emigrants to the West...
Foreign Minister Ali-Akhbar Velayati said Iran's revenge would extend to countries that have helped the United States in the Persian Gulf. He did not elaborate...
Many banks will not extend commercial loans to women unless their husbands or other men in the family cosign the application. "Everyone thought it was funny that I wanted to start my own asphalt-paving company," says Carolyn Stradley, 42, who founded C&S Paving, an Atlanta firm (1987 revenues: $2.5 million) after helping run a similar company. "Bankers would tell me, 'Honey, you can't make a living in that business.' " Stradley finally got a loan after her brother, who was unemployed and had once been bankrupt, cosigned...