Word: extender
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...federal appeals court ruled that cell-phone subscribers should be allowed to hold on to their existing phone number when they switch providers, handing consumers a major victory in a seven-year battle between the wireless industry and federal regulators. There's a chance that Congress will extend the deadline for compliance, but industry experts agree that the so-called number-portability rule will probably take effect...
...contribute €100 for each child toward the purchase of school books. In some schools, students are being asked to clean the classrooms themselves. Teachers have been told they have to work two hours a week more than the 26 hours of instruction they performed earlier. The problems extend to higher education. Heike Gundermann, spokeswoman for Humboldt University, Berlin's oldest, says the cutbacks may mean the elimination of 500 professorial or scientific positions. It's also possible, Gundermann says, that the normal intake of 5,000 students per semester may have to be scaled back. Says Christhard...
...need to extend hours on all of our space,” he says...
...media glare was unprecedented in the modern era, and the hype and hope merged into a singular motivation for the Crimson as it tried to extend its 12-game Ivy winning streak. But instead of a win, Harvard was handed its worst defeat in more than seven years...
...victory, the Crimson extend its run of winning national titles in every odd year since 1991. While this oddity worked for Harvard’s benefit this year, the daunting even-year curse is on the horizon...