Word: extended
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rosenthal said he hopes to extend appointments into the evenings. Already, the dental division is open until 8 p.m. twice a week and is open every Saturday morning...
...coincidence that Dalton began its plunge into technology with the Archaeotype program. Excavation is an apt metaphor for the kind of ``constructivist learning'' promoted at the school: students must actively dig up information, then construct their own understanding from raw, observable facts. What the technology does is extend experience so that many more observations are possible. ``It shifts education from adults giving answers to students seeking answers,'' says headmaster Gardner Dunnan. The underlying premise: we all understand and remember what we have discovered for ourselves far better than what we have merely been told. Still, the guiding hand...
...even from his raft in the Colorado River - - he will get the message on his cell phone and come on the line. If Fred is too busy negotiating the rapids to talk, you can always leave him a voice- mail message. The reach of phone systems continues to extend across the planet, as cellular transfer stations are built and communications satellites are launched. If Motorola's ambitious Iridium satellite project is ever completed, prospectively in 1998, virtually no place on earth will be out of range. Satellites are also making possible commercial use of the Pentagon- developed global positioning system...
Even today the interests of this new wave of stars seem to extend beyond the Hollywood club scene. Hawke and Sarah Jessica Parker live quiet lives in Manhattan, where they are involved in theater and claim not to socialize much with other actors. Two years ago, Hawke started his own theater company, where he presides as artistic director. Ryder collects rare books and owns an edition of James Joyce's Ulysses that features original drawings by Matisse. She is also a fan of the obscure, critically lauded Italian-American novelist John Fante...
After Wednesday's market chaos, U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin met in Washington with Mexican Finance Minister Guillermo Ortiz for talks aimed at nailing down all the details and conditions of the $20 billion in loans and guarantees that the U.S. is prepared to extend, out of an international bailout package totaling almost $50 billion. A U.S. source described the talks as ``very hot.'' Lawrence Summers, Undersecretary for International Affairs at the Treasury and a participant, said the U.S. was insisting on ``very tough conditions'' to make sure the loans would be repaid. One condition is that...