Word: extended
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they had long known it could happen, the actual event came as a shock to the three Democrats on the six-member U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. On Tuesday morning, in fact, they had expected pleasant news. The Senate Judiciary Committee seemed likely to approve a bill that would extend the commission's life and retain all its present members, including themselves. But hours before the committee was to meet, the White House gave Mary Frances Berry, Blandina Cardenas Ramirez and Rabbi Murray Saltzman a totally different message. As expressed in a letter hand-carried to Berry...
Harvard faces a must-win situation Saturday if it is to extend its season and force a playoff with the University of Pennsylvania for the Ivy title. The winner of that Harvard-Penn game would then advance to the NCAA tournament...
...constitution would extend limited political rights to leaders of the Colored--those of mixed race--and Indian minorities by opening up the cabinet, the first such move since the arrival of whites 331 years ago. But the change is basically cosmetic. It does not hullify the weighted voting system which allows the president to rule with only 30 percent of the members of Parliament as long as they are a majority of the white chamber. Thus it insures continued Afrikaner rule...
...Seven hundred thousand dollars for seven years is not a bad way to go," said Tefft, who managed Harvard's account for Coopers & Lybrand during their 1981 audit. "It is in the best interests of the University to extend the results of the audits and extrapolate them backwards," he added...
...employees with security clearances must submit to government censors any writing they mean to publish. The requirement also forced officials to consent to polygraph tests if suspected of unauthorized news releases. Failure to comply with the mandates can result in demotion or reassignment. The new orders proposed last week extend random lie-detector tests to all officials with access to classified information, even if no evidence of security breaches exists...