Word: extended
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Peterkin will begin his new job on August 16, the day after Lannon's contract expires At Tuesday's meeting, the committee proposed to extend Peterkin a $65,000, three-year contract...
Democrats were understandably skeptical about Reagan's transformation. Said House Speaker Tip O'Neill: "Reagan has built a wall around them and thrown brickbats. Now he wants to reach through a crack in the wall and extend the hand of fellowship." Reagan's likely Democratic opponent, Walter Mondale, has long pledged to make unconditional talks with Kremlin leaders his first priority after Inauguration Day. He derided Reagan's motives: "I intend to be a President who will lead us toward a safer world from the first day I'm in office, and not from...
...seems in the proper order of things that the Boston Celtics are champions and the Los Angeles Lakers runners-up, a feeling yet persists that the Lakers are the better basketball players, while the Celtics' virtues extend beyond the sport's linear boundaries, just out of Magic Johnson's range at 24, no longer within Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's reach...
...banned sub stances in 1973. Since then, the drugs have become ever more widely used as men and women seek to push their bodies to still higher levels of attainment. In the U.S., where synthetic steroids were developed about half a century ago, their use is thought to extend from world-class athletes to high school football players. Soviet and East European trainers are widely believed to have been giving the drugs to their athletes since the 1950s. Nor will it be possible for athletes to escape detection simply by stopping use of steroids immediately before the Los Angeles Games...
Because of the growing risk to shipping, the U.S. Navy acknowledged that it had begun to provide protection for tankers chartered to supply fuel for the American naval ships patrolling the gulf. The Reagan Administration is prepared to extend air and naval cover to other vessels if the tanker war should worsen. Under the plan, the U.S. would establish a sort of naval cordon sanitaire along the western channel of the gulf, through which ships from nonbelligerent nations destined for neutral ports would be escorted. No ships carrying arms or supplies for the warring countries would be included...