Word: extended
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Southeast Asian archipelago of 56 million people and more than 7,000 islands, life not only imitated art but improved upon it. In a made-for-television drama watched by millions, two veteran rulers, President Ferdinand Marcos and his wife Imelda, stumbled and fell in their ruthless campaign to extend, with an immodesty broader than a scriptwriter's fancy, their stolen empire...
...store displays its variegated edibles on shelves made of inter-connecting red and white plastic pipes that extend from floor to ceiling. Resting on the pipes are 440 bins of candy, dried fruit and nuts, popcorn, granola, cookies and 12 flavors of gelato...
Afghans are a special breed; unlike most people in the third world they never have been colonized. Three British attempts in the 19th and early 20th centuries to extend British India's border into Afghanistan were fended off by the fiercly independent Afghans...
Aloian's wife, Mimi, added a short reading of some of his private papers in which he discussed his hopes that love in the family might extend to the whole family of man. "What if the family of man really could unite and make a success of life on this planet?" wrote Aloian...
...outer space. The two leaders signed a joint declaration calling for an immediate ban on nuclear- weapons testing, with the goal of achieving an international ban on all nuclear and space-based weapons by the year 2000. The Delhi Declaration, as it was called, implied that Moscow would extend its own unilateral nuclear test ban, which had been set to expire on Jan. 1. The moratorium was first imposed after an appeal from India. The Soviets also announced that they were giving India a new $1.2 billion credit package, the largest Moscow has ever given India...