Word: extenders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...state of Jammu and Kashmir as their own. In 1949 Pakistan and India signed the so-called Karachi Agreement, which drew a cease-fire line that ended at map coordinate NJ 9842, at the southern foot of the Saltoro Range. The negotiators did not extend the line because there had been no fighting in Kashmir's northernmost reaches, but merely mentioned that the line should continue "thence north to the glaciers." Despite minor adjustments after the 1965 and 1971 India-Pakistan wars, the official boundary still ends at NJ 9842, leaving the Siachen ownership question unresolved...
...groups concede that they do not have much chance of blocking such legislation in states where pro-lifers have been organizing for years. Instead, groups such as the National Organization for Women will mount ballot initiatives and may bring lawsuits in states whose constitutions contain privacy provisions that might extend to abortion. They will also try to demonstrate their political power at the polls. "America's political landscape will never be the same," says Kate Michelman, executive director of the National Abortion Rights Action League. "To politicians who oppose choice, we say, 'Read our lips. Take our rights. Lose your...
Although the dining hall workers' contract expired on June 19, their bargaining representative, Local 26 of the Hotel Workers Union, agreed with the University to extend the deadline until the end of June so that HUCTW could complete its contract first...
...Giamatti and in interviews with Rose's associates: bets on ten to 20 college basketball games at a time, losses of $400,000 to just one bookie in one spring, desperate borrowing to pay the debts, equally desperate searches for new bookmakers to replace those who would no longer extend Rose credit or even take his bets...
Another explanation -- that the problems extend beyond engineering and involve crew training -- came from an unexpected corner. In the current issue of the Soviet publication Smena, which went to press well before the Echo II accident, a Captain V. Ovchinnikov criticized in the letters column the training of submarine crews: "It will probably surprise you if I say that the nuclear installations on our submarines are operated by people who are not sufficiently trained, and some of them not trained at all. But we still set sail. The operators know and can do only 30% to 50% of what they...