Word: extender
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...obstacles facing these women and their families extend far beyond poverty or difficulty learning English, Argaw says...
These issues extend into the schools. Argaw often has to call teachers and explain when a parent refuses to sign a report card. It is not that the parent is being uncooperative, Argaw says, it is just that she is embarrassed because she does not know how to write her own name...
...Judiciary Committee, had phoned chairman Orrin Hatch to ask if he would walk with Leahy to the Supreme Court hearing. The Senators felt it was important to stage a bipartisan show of support for the American judiciary, which has taken a drubbing since the Florida Supreme Court ruled to extend secretary of state Katherine Harris' certification deadline. Even Florida judge Charles Burton, the long-suffering head of the Palm Beach canvassing board, flew up to see the show...
...queries from Justice Scalia, who was audibly displeased with several of Boies' responses. Justice O'Connor, as well, posed tough questions to the Gore lawyer; at one point she asked him why the Florida Supreme Court had not responded to the high court's remand of a decision to extend the certification deadline. Boies didn't seem to have an answer...
...ANTHONY M. KENNEDY APPOINTED BY Ronald Reagan (1988) For the most part he's been a reliable conservative, but he has become an occasional swing vote, especially on abortion rights. During oral arguments two weeks ago, he was skeptical of the Florida Supreme Court's decision to extend the recount deadline...