Word: extends
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...contents of after-hour songs, banquets and parties that extend through the night and color the next day's play defy description and libel laws. And decency...
Forecasting the future of world crude-oil prices is one of the riskiest ventures in the whole realm of economic prediction. The questions involved go far beyond economics. Can the oil-producing nations continue to hold together as a cartel? How much and how quickly will they extend national ownership of the multinational oil-company affiliates pumping on their lands? Is a lasting peace likely in the Middle East, or might renewed fighting lead to a reimposition of the Arab oil embargo? Despite all these puzzlers, top U.S. economists now agree on two conclusions: barring war or other disaster...
...warehouses and lots of empty freight trucks. The towering buildings of downtown Baltimore fade in the distance. Soon the metal scrapyards and old industrial offices thin out, and pastureland marked by barns and silos rolls by. A horse stands blank-faced behind a wooden fence. Rows of trailer homes extend to the edge of the train tracks. An elderly woman, her apron stained with the morning's chores, is on her knees under the kitchen sink, banging away at a clogged pipe. "If this damned sink gets stopped up one more time..." she whispers angrily, thinking of her husband...
Bell said he expects the board of trustees to endorse a proposal "to call upon the University to extend additional loans, on the basis of our increased fund-raising expectations, so that the center can continue to operate at the same level of service...
Condemned, praised and often misunderstood in their 2½year lifetime, the nation's first peacetime wage-price controls now seem destined to die swiftly and unmourned. The House Banking and Currency Committee last week voted 21 to 10 against recommending a bill to extend controls and thus all but guaranteed that the limits will slide into oblivion when the present stabilization law expires April 30.* The vote follows a similar action by the Senate Banking Committee last month...