Word: extended
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...understand that the Chinese President Jiang Zemin has been invited to speak at Harvard University on Nov. 1. I am writing to request that you extend invitations to some of the prominent Chinese dissidents who live in exile in the United States to speak at the same event...
...hopes of furthering this proposal, I am suggesting that you extend invitations to the following persons: Wang Juntao, Tong Yi and Liu Gang, who have all spent years in Chinese prisons for merely expressing their political opinions in China...
...need to be able to sustain [professors'] projects over time, to build long-term relationships with people and nations abroad and to place ourselves more directly in touch with the societies that we study," he said. "In other words, we need to extend our wings--tentatively, carefully, but with some sense of real excitement...
...studies undertaken over the decades. She found that beginning readers who were systematically taught phonics performed better than those who were not. She made it clear, though, that phonics instruction should not consist of mindless drills, should not be done to the exclusion of reading stories and should not extend beyond the first half of first grade...
...Boxes that say "Your Ad Here," or "Got a hot news tip?" are blatant filler. Reuters news photos are a welcome alternative to this, but should still be used as little as possible. However, rather than analyze the intent of Crimson editors in page layout, I'd like to extend the definition to include any news or photo that seems to be placed for visual interest and not much else...