Word: extender
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...understand what the Bush Administration is doing, it makes sense to compare Bush with his father. In 1990 President George H.W. Bush signed a sweeping expansion of the then 20-year-old Clean Air Act. By contrast, his son is trying not to extend existing policy or even curtail it but to remake it in fundamental ways. Bush is preternaturally opposed to anything regulatory--and existing clean-air law, he believes, saddles energy producers with too many rules and too little incentive to be clean. So in February Bush proposed new legislation to curtail power-plant pollution. His plan, which...
...L.A.P.D. and the district attorney's office, needless to say, don't want a Simpson-like case--especially now. The L.A.P.D. has been in turmoil since the city council voted last week not to extend Chief Bernard Parks' contract. Los Angeles Mayor James Hahn says Parks is being pushed out partly because of rising crime rates. Parks, the most prominent African American in city government in L.A., says the reason is dirty politics...
...plan will also extend the area encompassed under the local calling plan, which currently only covers Cambridge and towns touching it, Kinchla said...
...write because the chilling effects of hate speech against any minority group are felt by all minority groups. We extend our sympathy to the individuals who have been personally affected by these attacks. First-year students have been angered, shocked, and left in tears by these incidents. Their sense of community, if not shattered, is severely strained. It is difficult to engage other students in the classroom when individuals in your class have anonymously attacked your racial, ethnic or religious group. The anonymous aspect of these attacks is especially egregious because it discourages open intellectual debate and allows individuals...
...Crimson continued to extend its lead and exert its dominance in the second half, in large part due to the efforts of junior attacker Katie O’Brien...