Word: extended
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although the Wye agreement included significant land and counterterrorism commitments, it did not extend to the most contentious questions dividing Israel and the Palestinian Authority--such as the future of Jerusalem...
...Internet that helped spawn it. The idea is that the best way to build and market truly great software is to give it away and then enlist the collective talent of the thousands of programmers on the Net who will use it, debug it and ultimately improve and extend it. Case in point? Linux, a hugely popular version of the Unix operating system that is even overtaking Unix in some markets...
...programs. So far, however, it has been underfunded. In 1997 and 1998 it received a total of only $32 million from the state, enough to help just a small fraction of Texas' 1,050 school districts. Now Bush is asking for an additional $203 million for reading, enough to extend the program and pave the way for Bush's other big goal: doing away with the "social promotion" of children who fail the statewide reading tests yet are moved along to the next grade level. It is a controversial plan that few other states are even considering, because holding back...
Sometimes the welfare benefits extend beyond the companies to include their executives. The next time you fly and pay the 8% federal excise tax on airline tickets, plus a $2 surcharge to pay for air-traffic-control services, think of America's corporate bosses. They don't pay the tax or surcharge if they're flying on company planes--for business or pleasure. Though corporate jets pay a fuel tax, these revenues do not come close to covering their share of air-traffic-control costs. It works out to a subsidy of upwards of $350 million a year to corporate...
...ultimate goal of the National Center is to provide better health care," Shore said. "We will extend outreach of medical care by trying to bring in groups who have less access to health care, such as minority groups and those with language problems...