Word: extended
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That's the political rationale, but whether expansion is really a good idea is more complicated. For example, will extending the West's nuclear shield eastward mean more stability in Europe, where war this century has cost 50 million lives, including those of 500,000 Americans? Or will expansion just redivide Europe along a more eastward line, angering Russian nationalists who consider the plan an offensive danger and who may respond by ousting the new democrats, stopping the reduction of nuclear and chemical stockpiles and resuming nuclear threats? Is it sensible to extend a military alliance and in the process...
...first time in its half century of existence, Memorial Hall will extend its privileges to ladies, with escorts," the article said...
...after Question 9's passage, the City Council passed, 8-1, a resolution asking the state legislature to extend rent-control protections...
Whether conventional medicine will ever extend such diplomatic recognition to breakaway practitioners like Weil is an open question. Part of the problem appears to be Weil himself. Even after 30 years, many of his mainstream colleagues still remember him mostly for his marijuana studies and persist in seeing him, at best, as a drug apologist and, at worst, as an advocate. Weil hasn't always helped his own cause: his third book, From Chocolate to Morphine (Houghton Mifflin, 1983), seemed to argue for the essential blamelessness of most mind-altering drugs and to make little distinction between plants like cocoa...
...mania has now produced a spate of books--catnip for the nostalgia connoisseur and the mogul hoping to extend his franchise line and move the vintage-cartoon cassettes off the video-store shelves. Warner Books has published Chuck Reducks, the second (after Chuck Amuck) memoir of Warner Bros.' cartoon glory years by its major double-domo, Chuck Jones. Turner Publishing, literary outlet for the owner of mgm cartoons, honors animation's wildest spirit with John Canemaker's handsome Tex Avery: The MGM Years, 1942-55. It is essentially a reprint of Pierre Lambert's original, one of four French books...