Word: extended
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scant effort into ratcheting down the war; it is perceived as too complicated, too Islamic, too out of the way. The vacuum allows regional powers--Pakistan, Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and India--to back one side or another, prolonging the conflict as they seek to extend their influence. Such meddling infuriates Afghans, but some reserve a special anger for America. They believe the U.S. has turned its back on the country it once supported, indifferent to its suffering. "Those friends who armed us to the teeth didn't think what will happen in the future," says Zekria Bakhshi, a physician...
Because the new dean's responsibilities extend beyond those of the dean of the College, the job also requires a person with extensive academic credentials at "a scholarly level that we don't currently have," according to Radcliffe spokesperson Carolyn Chamberlin...
...ordinance comes in anticipation of a Hawaii court case which, if approved, would become the first state in the United States to extend such privileges...
...collaboration between radar developers and storm chasers was immensely productive. It led to the NEXRAD (or Next Generation Radar) system, which the National Weather Service is currently installing nationwide. Already NEXRAD has helped extend the lead time for tornado warnings from three to eight minutes, on average. Sometimes the warning comes even earlier. Last month weather forecasters in Little Rock, Arkansas, called a tornado warning for communities in the Ozark Mountains a full 35 minutes before the twister showed up, giving people who lived in trailer homes time to scurry to friends' basements for safety...
...HUPD's latest mistreatment of my rights has given me another probable cause in my charges of libel and conspiracy to be filed in the Federal District Court shortly. In the meantime, I appeal to the progressive student groups on the Harvard campus to extend a formal invitation to me to speak on this issue which, in a word, represents the ugly, Kafkaesque side of Harvard University. Surely, there must be some one on campus who cares about the freedom of speech! --Kaveh L. Afrasiabi, Ph.D. Professor of American Politics University of Massachusetts at Lowell