Word: extended
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Minister described her program as containing "real, radical policies for the next Parliament," with the key theme "power to the people." Said she: "We intend to spread ownership of homes, shares and pensions even more widely. We shall continue to sell industries back to the people. We want to extend greater choice in services like housing and education...
There was strong support--70 percent to 30 percent--for starting the school year a week earlier in order to extend the Thanksgiving and Christmas breaks, but the University has no plans to change the semester, he says...
Those protections do not extend to other crimes. Indeed, Litman first made a name for himself in 1977 by getting a conviction on the lesser charge of manslaughter for Richard Herrin, a Yale graduate who killed his girlfriend Bonnie Garland with a hammer. "It was suggested," says her father Paul bitterly, "that she was a manipulative, rich, spoiled person who didn't treat this lovely man who murdered her nicely." Garland, a New York attorney, is working for the spread of legislation that gives victims the right to a voice at bail hearings and with the prosecution before a plea...
...deport them if they fail to qualify for legal status. (The law specifically forbids the use of information gathered for legalization for any other purpose: INS, for example, cannot turn over tax information on aliens to the Internal Revenue Service.) Another reason for hesitation is that amnesty will not extend to family members of applicants. Thus, if a husband qualifies for legal residency and his wife and children do not, they can be deported...
...three-judge panel in New York City declared that "noble words . . . ring hollow when spoken by a man who ordered the extermination of innocent men, women and children kneeling at the edge of a mass grave." Last week the Supreme Court in a 6-to-3 vote refused to extend a temporary order blocking the expulsion...