Word: extended
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harry S Truman liked a good scrap, but in 1951 he quickly backed down when American Protestants erupted in fury against his plan to extend diplomatic recognition to the Vatican. Even the President's own Baptist pastor in Washington denounced the idea from the pulpit. So abashed was Truman that he eliminated the post of the President's "personal representative" to the Holy...
...Local President Lyle Taylor was installed as company president. But losses continued :o accumulate, and six weeks ago Rath filed for bankruptcy. As part of the reorganization plan, Taylor wants 1,500 production workers to give up some of the generous medical benefits that he once helped negotiate and extend a $2.50-per-hour wage cut that is due to expire at the end of this month. Workers are bitter. Says Richard Campbell, 25: "I can't afford to take another pay cut, and we can't afford to lose the maternity benefits." Votes Taylor: "They have...
...researcher-who managed its heavy load of 72 experiments. The space agency noted that more than 90% of the studies had been completed. If the scientific data transmitted from orbit in just a single burst were lined up as small, text-size electronic symbols, one official calculated, they would extend from the earth to the moon. After preliminary analysis, Space-lab's international team of scientists, from Europe, the U.S., Canada and Japan, were able to point to a number of important findings, including new insights into the body's reaction to weightlessness, a greater knowledge...
...renewed effort by the American church to redirect the country's thinking on what the Cardinal called the "ethic of life." It was an attempt to get liberals to re-examine the morality of abortion. Equally it was an appeal to those conservatives who condemn abortion to extend their pro-life commitment to opposing the nuclear arms race and capital punishment...
...institute's study does not challenge these applications of surgery. Instead, it focuses on whether or not bypass operations extend the life of patients with less severe heart disease. Some of those selected for the study were suffering from mild to moderate angina, the viselike chest pains that signal a decreased supply of blood to the heart; others had a history of one or more heart attacks but did not have recurrent chest pains. The 780 participants, all under age 65, were randomly treated either with bypass surgery or with drugs, such as nitroglycerin and diuretics, that ease pain...