Word: extended
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When defending the boldness of the Marshall Plan 50 years ago, Senator Arthur Vandenberg observed that it does little good to extend a 15-foot rope to a man drowning 20 feet away. Similarly, we cannot achieve our objectives in Bosnia by doing just enough to avoid immediate war. We must do all we can to help the people of Bosnia to achieve permanent peace...
...today's political climate, research like this is a hot-button issue. The use of federal funds for research on human embryos is already prohibited, although that ban does not extend to work done in privately funded research labs. That's why private in vitro-fertilization clinics flourished in the 1980s with almost no federal regulation. What some commission members feared was that the same thing could happen with research on human cloning...
...white, Protestant, conservative Republicans -- and forget overtures across political and ethnic lines. But preaching exclusively to the choir could prove limiting when the 1998 Congressional elections roll around. Certainly Tate, who pushed English-as-an-official-language legislation and immigration crackdowns while in office, is not the man to extend Reed's tentative forays into untapped black and Hispanic communities. At 1.8 million members and more than 1,900 chapters nationwide, the coalition still has considerable influence to sell to donors. But the days of exponential growth that the Coalition owed to the telegenic, flesh-pressing Reed look...
...always been a great leader on the court, and this will just give her a chance to extend it to off the court," Grossman says...
...first match of December, Harvard edged Brandeis 14-13, to extend its record to 5-0. Unfortunately, that victory would be the Crimson's last in the match season...