Word: extended
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Beginning January of next year, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) will extend the weekend hours of its bus service and subway and trolley lines, pushing Boston's unofficial city curfew back two hours...
...ought to be able to extend service to 2:30 on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights," he said...
...trades through cyberspace all night long, potentially saving money by having their trades executed faster. Retail investors will still route their trades to Instinet through brokers--online and otherwise--but they'll be able to react to late-breaking news. Both the N.Y.S.E. and NASDAQ are also planning to extend trading hours, at least until 9 p.m. For now, the SEC can only counsel restraint; Levitt advises online traders to use limit orders, so they only get a stock at a set price, and avoid buying on margin...
...audience, Lucas dribbles in gratuitous allusions to the action-figure world he begat in his youth: Jawas cheer "Utidi!" and sand people fire on the racers like juvenile delinquents. Jabba the Hutt rolls out to preside over the race, as if Lucas' faith in his audience did not extend beyond their vulgar appreciation for references to the previous movies...
...course, none of this ever gets televised. The camera shows the tarpaulin or, worse, the faces and cheap suits of the announcers, who either pretend nothing is happening or offer a moralistic diatribe about "these idiots who needlessly extend the game to unmanageable lengths...