Word: extenders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Extend authority to issue tax-exempt bonds to benefit lower-income first-time homebuyers through June...
...bill would clear up errors and ambiguities in the 1986 tax overhaul; relieve farms and some other businesses from paying the federal tax on diesel fuel used for off-road purposes and extend several expiring provisions...
...crisis, the crew would jettison the huge external fuel tank and stabilize the winged orbiter into a downward glide. Then, when the craft descended to an altitude of about 30,000 ft., the astronauts would set off explosive bolts, blowing a newly installed hatch off the ship, and extend the 12-ft. telescoping escape pole, which is positioned to guide them away from the orbiter's wing and tail. One by one, each would slip a ring attached to his suit around the pole and would slide off into the thin air, deploy his parachute and drop into the ocean...
...personal soapbox and successfully promoted it as an intellectual center for the British left. Had he done no more, a place in history would have been secure. Yet he lived for another half-century of undiminished fame and scarcely mitigated activity, which is why Holroyd's opus will extend to another two volumes...
About 40 students added their names to the list by the new deadline, 5 p.m. yesterday, making a grand total of 160. By the original deadline, Friday, only about 120 candidates had signed up, convincing council officials to extend the deadline...