Word: extenders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Safe Soil. Next morning Ford met with 33 small-town and suburban mayors from the Midwest. He urged them to push Congress hard to extend the revenue-sharing program, which is due to expire at the end of 1976. During his relaxed and freewheeling exchanges with the mayors, Ford also reinforced his refusal to rescue New York City from its financial crisis (see page 20). Said the President: "Your constituents wouldn't tolerate it if you ran your city as badly as New York City has been...
Though the University has decided definitely not to extend Christmas vacation this year in order to keep down energy costs, the administration is investigating all the options available for closing down Faculty operations, in particular the Houses. A specific plan will probably be developed by next week so that students and other people living in the Houses will know as early as possible whether they can stay at Harvard during the vacation...
Another suggestion: find a new hurricane to extend the Oakland series to twenty days so that Luis Tiant can pitch every game. Harvard's Pat McInally is still trying to decide between a Rhodes scholarship and a professional career. The Bengals may be wishing that he got the damn Rhodes...
...television address the week before his new government came to power, Pinheiro de Azevedo pledged to preserve "the gains made by the revolution" and to continue to build a socialist Portugal. But he also promised a "democratic pluralism" that he pointedly said would extend to the news media-a slap at the Communist unions that use the state-owned radio, TV and newspapers to spout the party line. Despite their token representation in the Cabinet, the Communists eye the new regime with scarcely veiled hostility. Party Leader Alvaro Cunhal told cheering followers in Lisbon's Campo Pequeno bull ring...
...ASEAN states that the U.S. will most profitably be able to extend assistance. By helping them, as well as South Korea, Washington will be aiding nations most of which are not democracies but which have significantly greater economic and social freedom than their Communist neighbors and are striving to improve the material well-being of their people...