Word: extended
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...care proposal reached the floor in either the House or the Senate for debate. A major crime bill, containing a waiting period for handgun purchases, was stalled by a small group of Republicans. And the only programs designed to address the nation's economic slump were votes taken to extend unemployment benefits to the 9.6 million Americans who are out of work. At week's end it was difficult to say who was most eager for the lawmakers to adjourn: Bush or the public. Or maybe even the members themselves...
That reach may, in some countries, extend too far. In Brazil, where the more laid-back, samba-tinged rap of Rio is dueling for prominence with the harder- edged street anthems of Sao Paulo, hypercharged groups like Sons of the Ghetto decry the injustices of the social system. The most popular song is the work of an 18-year-old middle-class kid who calls himself Gabriel the Thinker. Only days after its release, the piece was the most requested number on a local radio station. Last month the government forced the station to take it off the air. Gabriel...
Probably the single biggest pitfall of prognostication is the assumption that current trends will extend indefinitely into the future, like those high rates of firewood consumption. Another peril is basing forecasts on assumptions about what science might be capable of producing without taking into account what people will actually welcome or demand. Two-way picture phones, for example, which went on sale in the 1960s, have yet to find a market largely because there has been no demand for them...
...think the real problem is that a lot of people at Harvard and, of course, in Cabot House, have started voluntary segregation from activities or dinner or whatever," wrote the Asian-American student. "All ethnic groups at Harvard should make the effort to `extend' themselves...
Lies in the interest of liars may also extend to those with whom the liars feel closely bound -- the individual to his tribe, sect, community or nation, the employee to his employers, the professional to his peers, the advertiser or lawyer to his client. If collective success or profit is a paramount goal, a lie told to achieve it may seem a tempting alternative...