Word: extended
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...racquetmen crushed the Quakers, 7-2, to improve their record to 10-0 (3-0 in Ivy) and extend their nine-man dual winning streak to 57 consecutive games...
...quickly became clear that Soviet authorities were not ready to extend glasnost to freedom of assembly. Every morning for the rest of the week, gangs of thugs showed up on Arbat Street and roughed up demonstrators and journalists who were covering the protests. The government blamed the troublemaking on right-wing hooligans known locally as lyubers, though most demonstrators suspected the authorities of connivance...
...council followed up on worthwhile initiative begun last year, convincing the administration to install wordprocessers in the Science Center and to extend the dinner hour in the house by 15 minutes. It also sent a couple of members out for milk and cookies and held study breaks in the libraries during reading the exam periods. The tailgate party and the milk and cookie breaks fine ideas, in the vaunted tradition of the chocolate milk coup...
...escalation does not extend to all branches of Protestantism. Until World War II, mission endeavor was ruled by boards of such "mainline" denominations, affiliated with the National Council of Churches and Canadian Council of Churches, as the United Methodist and Presbyterian churches. But these groups have lately suffered a "precipitous decline" in overseas staffs, the Handbook reports, to less than half the total in the late 1960s. Since then, the expanding Evangelical and Fundamentalist boards, mostly independent of denominational control, have all but taken over...
Little more than a year ago, Control Data looked like a high-tech has-been. The Minneapolis-based company was piling up a staggering 1985 loss of more than $567 million (revenues that year: $3.7 billion). Bankers were refusing to extend the company any more short-term credit, while Wall Streeters were whispering that the firm might have to seek Chapter 11 protection. But today Control Data is running smoothly again, thanks to an overhaul in which the company dumped unprofitable sidelines, sharpened its focus on computer technology and cut its payroll from...