Word: extended
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...common Bush traits extend to their personal life as well. The brothers were itching to run for office in the 1980s but were counseled by their parents to, in effect, make something of themselves before running. They complied. George W. made his first million in the oil business and in 1989 became managing partner of the Texas Rangers; Jeb made his first million in real estate and recently became a partner in the Jacksonville Jaguars, a new N.F.L. franchise. Though they come from a family of certified New England blue bloods, they are Texas boys by upbringing and have...
Your attitude should extend beyond the sphere of your writing into your personal life. The paragon of Harvard opinion-makers, Rob Wasinger '94, was known by every student and administrator in his days at Peninsula. Wasinger led a one-man crusade against the Liberal Menace. Like him, you should remember that it's more important to be remembered than to be believed...
...Globe said the protest came after Brandeis president Samuel O. Thier decided to extend the school's antismoking policy to include a popular campus dining hall and an upstairs lounge in the Goldfarb Library...
...diehards. He told TIME, "I've never thought the best should be the enemy of the good." And Ira Magaziner, chief architect of the now abandoned Clinton plan, is gamely working with Senator Harris Wofford of Pennsylvania and other Senate liberals on a "Kids First" plan to extend insurance to children who now lack it. All these players are wearing their game faces; they expect the health-care struggle to continue right through Congress's scheduled Oct. 7 adjournment...
...common sense will drive the political process. "There is no free lunch," observes Tammy Tengs, a public-health specialist at Duke University. "When someone spends money in one place, that money is not available to spend on other things." She and her colleagues have calculated that tuberculosis treatment can extend a person's life by a year for less than $10,000 -- surely a reasonable price tag. By contrast, extending a life by a year through asbestos removal costs nearly $2 million, since relatively few people would die if the asbestos were left in place. That kind of benefit-risk...