Word: extended
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would accuse Harvard of being a Beanpot team, however. The Cantabs have dropped five straight in 'Pot play, and seem destined to extend their streak next week against Boston College. B.C. is the ECAC's number two squad...
Under a plan worked out by representatives of the Undergraduate Council and the Freshmen Dean's Office (FDO), departments will hold advising sessions and extend their office hours to answer questions about requirements and courses...
Earlier this month the various Lebanese factions seemed ready to accept a formal ceasefire. This would have permitted the Lebanese government, whose present power does not even extend beyond the Beirut city limits, to expand its control to a wider area. Such a development could eventually lead to a withdrawal of the Marines and the other peacekeeping forces. At the last moment, however, Druze Leader Walid Jumblatt, who receives strong support from Syria, raised new objections and effectively scuttled the tentative agreement...
...growing understanding of how cancer starts on the genetic level may soon lead to new and more effective treatments. Such speculations bring out what is probably the most frightening thing about these books and about DNA research--the possibility of changing genes to eliminate hereditary disease and, by implication, extend our control almost as far as life and death...
Africa's blight and decay also extend to projects and equipment built or financed by well-meaning foreign countries. In rural Senegal, a $250,000 U.S.-made solar-powered irrigation system lies idle, mainly because of maintenance problems. Just outside Lusaka, in Zambia, hundreds of government vehicles sit abandoned in a parking lot. Some are wrecks, but many others are almost new, missing only a clutch plate or a windshield. Desperately short of foreign exchange, the government of President Kaunda prefers to import new vehicles through aid programs rather than buy the spare parts necessary to repair...