Word: extended
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hard, exterior skeletons. Over time, the stony material accumulates, giving colonies of coral their signature shapes. Some corals, for example, form big round heads that resemble a giant cauliflower, while others assume elongate shapes reminiscent of skyscrapers. As impressive as cities, mature reefs may be thousands of years old, extend for hundreds of miles and shelter thousands upon thousands of species--making them one of the most genetically diverse ecosystems on sea or land...
...didn't plan for the eclipse, but we did extend the time so that students could stay and see it," Shinagel said...
...midst of the politicking and posturing for last spring's popular election, many unnoticed advancements occurred. The true leaders of the council worked to extend library hours, achieve better lighting in the Yard and maintain flexibility in the upper class house transfer policy. While these student leaders were often not mandated to act by "legislation" from the council, they were the ones who served the needs of the student body. Avoiding the politics of the council floor, they could often be found representing students' interests at various student-faculty committee meetings on athletics, the libraries and house life. They worked...
Cleveland took this controversial step across the church-state line out of desperation. As elsewhere in the U.S., many of its inner-city public schools are a physical and academic dead zone. In California, Colorado and Oregon, voters have turned down voucher initiatives that would extend school choice statewide because most suburban voters are not that unhappy with their public schools. So programs targeted at minority kids have become the new, more ambiguous school-choice battleground--one on which liberals don't always know which side to take. For some poor children, the chance to go to private school could...
...powerfully symbolic pronouncements followed. In August 1995 he urged a crackdown on tobacco advertising directed at kids. Calls for school uniforms, teen curfews, V chips to block violent television shows, and a series of proposals aimed at women voters specifically (including bills designed to increase child-support collections, extend the family-leave act and mandate a longer hospital stay after giving birth) guaranteed that the gender gap, already in Clinton's favor, would grow to historic proportions...