Word: extended
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Nationalism at the Olympics is essentially unavoidable because of the flags and the anthems and the money for the badges. So the home court must be acknowledged as a powerful advantage, though at least it did not extend to ragging the Chinese gymnasts (whom Mitch Gaylord reassuringly called "very human human beings") or to begrudging the Rumanians their corresponding triumph over the U.S. women gymnasts. News that the Rumanians' traveling expenses were defrayed by the Olympic organizers had no noticeable effect on their popularity since it did not change the fact that they had stood up to the Soviet Union...
...growth is Thailand (pop. 49 million). In the past three decades, the Thai birth rate has declined by nearly 40%, from 46.6 per 1,000 people to 28.6. The population growth rate has dropped from about 3.4% to 1.95%. One reason for the change is a determined effort to extend health care and family planning to rural areas. Thailand has more than 4,000 village health centers staffed with 220,000 paramedics in addition to village doctors and local assistant midwives. One Thai private group offers farm production and marketing assistance to contraceptive users; as a result, rates of contraceptive...
Bank regulators also feared that if overseas depositors lost money in a Continental failure, they might start pulling their accounts from other big U.S. banks as well. Smaller institutions could face failure if they lost large amounts of money on deposit with Continental. The shock waves might extend to local companies doing business with those banks. In short, what was at stake in Continental's crisis was the stability of the entire international banking system. Said Democratic Senator William Proxmire of Wisconsin, a vocal opponent of the Chrysler and Lock heed rescues: "For the first time I favor...
Whatever else, these displays of individual worth are simply beautiful. In a way, the Games extend definitions of beauty. Why is synchronized swimming no more beautiful than the bulging grimace of a weight lifter? Art rarely pins these things down. Painters miss it. Writers do worse, with exceptions such as Mailer on boxing, Updike on golf, Hemingway on a bobsled run: "A bob shot past, all the crew moving in time, and as it rushed at express train speed for the first turn, the crew all cried 'Ga-a-a-a-r!' and the bob roared in an icy smother...
...concerned, I simply do not exist." So said the U.S.S.R.'s internationally celebrated film director Andrei Tarkovsky as he announced in Milan last week that he was seeking political asylum in the West. One reason for his decision: Soviet officials had ignored his repeated applications for permission to extend an 18-month working stint abroad. The director, whose wife is with him, said that requests for other members of his family to join him, particularly Son Andrei, 13, had also gone unheeded...