Word: extends
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David Newman and Robert Benton did this in the original script, and all the trimmings were fine -- good jokes, nice lyrics, lively and interesting score. But they intended Superman to be inept and endearing, so they wrote it in. What this Quincy House production does, no less endearingly, is extend the clumsiness to the whole presentation. Needless as this amateur touch is, it doesn't really detract from an evening that had little more than laugh potential anyway. Harvard audiences seem sympathetic to plays that have some rollicking enthusiasm, and no one minded much that the technical, orchestral, and choreographic...
Since the CIA's formation, it had had major influence in American international politics. And given the agency's highly questionable record in that arena, any attempt by the CIA to extend its influence into American domestic politics must be halted immediately...
Senator Byrd introduced a bill last week that would make the bureau an independent agency, not answerable to the Attorney General, whose director would serve seven years. Washington Senator Henry Jackson introduced a measure that would extend the term to 15 years but require that any candidate have "extensive professional experience" in law enforcement, including ten years...
...blacks. As long as blacks are portrayed as "stereotyped examples of human misery and degradation," they write, whites will scarcely want to welcome them into their neighborhoods, places of work or hearts. "It makes eminent sense, on the other hand, to demand of white middle-class Americans that they extend a fair and equal chance to those who, like them, earned their way into the middle class, as well as to all those millions who stand ready to do so once given the chance...
...Common Market still thinks it has a duty to help them. "Otherwise," he warned, "we run the serious risk of creating economic, followed by political vacuums, with all the dangers that that would involve for the Western world." But he added that "the Community does not seek to extend its policy of association and preferential trade agreements beyond the limits which history and close geographical links have made necessary...