Word: extended
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...keep up with daylight savings time, the Metropolitan District Commission (MDC) recently decided to extend this period to October--as move that has provoked varying responses from citizens...
...said in a prepared statement that the grant will aid Radcliffe in "the encouragement of women scholars and the study of women's lives and their contributions to society," two of the goals of Radcliffe College. Calling the grant a "splendid gift," she added that it will help Radcliffe "extend our scholarly perspective across national boundaries and our knowledge and understanding beyond the traditional constraints of our disciplines...
...waiting to see how this first networking system works out before we extend it to other buildings and the dorms," says Paul C. Martin '52, dean of the Division of Applied Sciences...
...Must we really extend the principle of free speech to blatantly racist or sexist communications that are so offensive to others, so inflammatory, so devoid of intellectual content that they could not conceivably contribute to the pursuit of truth and understanding...
...week's end, at least 100 people had been killed and more than 200 wounded, most of them civilians. That brought the total number of deaths in the Tripoli fighting since January to 400. The Lebanese government of Prime Minister Rashid Karami, which has been unable to extend its authority to Tripoli, also saw its tenuous grip around the city of Beirut loosen somewhat. Ten people were wounded when fighting erupted once more between rival Christian and Druze militias in the hills overlooking the capital...