Word: extender
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...Taliban restored order to Afghan cities, but it was order of a sinister kind. Most of the leadership and the fighters were Pashtun tribesmen from rural areas of the south around Kandahar. In some respects, the harshness of their treatment of women was their attempt to extend across all Afghanistan the primitive social order of their villages at home. And it allowed the leadership to claim that Taliban rule had conferred on its male warriors a new degree of authority. The nation was a shambles, but at least the women were firmly under control...
...initiative will come out of departmental discussions that will extend until...
Although Sullivan’s original order advocated closing the congregation place around the T entrance, several amendments altered the language of the order. The final order, which the council passed unanimously, requested that groups ranging from the Cambridge Police Department to Youth Under Fire “extend the provision of services to users...
...Congress will only sign this letter if they hear from their constituents that it is something they support. Legislators do not want to appear insensitive to the country’s grief and fury following the Sept. 11 attacks. We must show them that our grief and fury extend from the loud tragedies to the quiet tragedies as well...
Prior to the Yale game, Fratto had only reeled in eight catches for 54 yards and one touchdown all season. But just yesterday, he caught Rose passes of two and 21 yards in the endzone in the second quarter to extend an 8-7 lead...