Word: extender
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...that his bet has been called. You promise to be a uniter, not a divider? Here is a broken, cloven polity. You promise to change the tone? We can't bear to listen anymore to the rancor of the past five weeks, or eight years, or 13, if you extend this period of pitiless politics back to the confirmation hearings of Robert Bork...
...only major criticism that has been leveled against Cleary over the past 10 years has been his inability to hire minority coaches. Despite efforts to extend feelers into black coaches' organizations, virtually all of his appointees to top positions have been white...
Despite the energy in the building, Harvard's fans were silenced when Big Green forward Ian MacGinnis made two free throws to extend Dartmouth's lead to four with only 29 seconds left. Needing two possessions, the Crimson's hopes for a win were slim...
...demanding more Faculty, agitating to strip down our inefficient bureacracy and institute a better advising system. He wouldn't be "working with administrators" to negotiate lower phone bills--let the Campus Life Committee handle that. Instead, he'd be a highly vocal advocate of the student interests that extend beyond our pocketbooks and our stomachs...
...closing Chernobyl, they had daily outages in the capital, Kiev. In fact, they're so regular that they're actually scheduled, blacking out whole sections of the city for hours at a time so that power can be supplied to other regions. Now, without Chernobyl, they will have to extend those blackouts. Their only alternative is to rely more heavily on heating oil, which comes from Russia. And that could raise political tensions by making them more dependent on Russia. In the long term they're relying on promises from Europe of billions of dollars to help them develop...