Word: extended
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite the problems of culture shock, most Africans are as involved in University activities as other undergraduates. Many belong to groups connected with Africa and international affairs, but their interests extend well beyond these fields...
HOWEVER, equally troubling issues would have emerged had a mere four congressmen switched their nay votes against Reagan's $43 million contra request. The Sandinistas, upon learning of the vote to extend contra aid, surely would have denounced it as sabotaging the peace process. More aid would have allowed them to continue hiding behind the screen that the contra war, and not their own pathetic fiscal mismanagement, is to blame for the searing poverty and economic woes that afflict the Nicaraguan people. The delicate peace accord would have collapsed, and the United States would have been accused by the international...
...lobbied hard on the issue for two weeks and has put the contras among the top foreign policy priorities for his final year in office. Only a day earlier, Reagan had offered one final compromise giving Congress more say in the military aid. He argued that failure to extend aid would strengthen communist influence in the hemisphere...
...Costin Scalise is now nine months pregnant with her first child, with expected delivery any day. Although some might be inclined to take a few days off for such an occasion, Costin Scalise made last night's trip with her team, watching it extend its dominance over the rest of the Ivies to a period of nearly three years...
Democrats Gephardt, Dukakis and Gore are ill positioned to take much partisan advantage from the Republican deficit distress. Gephardt's notions of bitter medicine, for example, do not extend to Iowa voters; he fervently backs a farm bill that he admits would increase food prices. Dukakis still clings to his widely ridiculed notion that stricter IRS enforcement would slash $35 billion from the deficit. Dukakis does not want to discuss new taxes, claims Chris Edley, his campaign-issues director, because he fears that they would draw attention from his IRS compliance scheme. Gore is equally vague. All he offers...