Word: extended
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hearst spent most of his time here in conflict with the Ad Board's 19th century avatar. The Faculty Records from the 1884-85 school year indicate that on September 30, the Faculty voted to keep the inveterate prankster on probation until Christmas. On February 3, they decided to extend the punishment to the end of the year. But Hearst didn't even last that long. John R. Dos Passos '16, in his novel The Big Money, tells the story of Hearst's leave-taking: "He tutored and went to Harvard where he cut quite a swath as business manager...
...families don't live in Disney World. Whatever escapism the theme park provides, people ultimately go home and face life outside the Magic Kingdom. Disney World is a private enterprise that has but a passing influence on most families' lives. But one of Disney's newest ventures attempts to extend its brand of corporate manufactured reassurance into public, not private, spaces, a concept that has made critics more temperate than Hiaasen cringe in dismay...
...lend the money. They are not technically regulated in the sense that banks are, but they are under fairly significant degrees of surveillance." On the other hand, Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, a former co-chairman of Goldman Sachs, had put out a word of caution, saying that "people who extend credit tend to get a little less careful" in good times...
...televised around the world. "We are planning a message of light and of hope," says David Jack, who heads the Waterfront Project, one of the world's most ambitious dockland developments. The 15-year, $500 million undertaking, which includes five-star hotels, restaurants, theaters and craft markets, will eventually extend into the city's foreshore via a negotiable canal access system...
...persuading Starr to back off is no mean challenge. The President and his aides have been attacking the prosecutor for years. Clinton's lawyer David Kendall persuaded a federal judge to launch two investigations into whether Starr leaked grand jury evidence to reporters. One way Kendall could extend the olive branch to Starr: drop the complaint...