Word: extends
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nations are suffering from an energy crisis that threatens to deplete their oil supplies; the Arab nations control much of the world's oil reserves-a factor that must shape foreign policy planning to some extent. Beyond that, the Middle East is a logical area in which to extend the Nixon-Kissinger doctrine of peace through power balances, especially since the Soviet Union is also a presence in the region. "After Nixon's success in Viet Nam," said an Israeli diplomat last week, "all of Washington is becoming Metternichized...
...legalize gambling is now before the New York legislature. Poor blacks tend to be against such a change because they distrust government, and they figure that the proceeds from gambling would be taken away from the black numbers runners and other local operatives. In addition, numbers men now extend credit to their customers, but legal betting parlors demand cash. Lisle C. Carter, a Cornell University sociologist, notes that ghetto crime "is a source of investment resources, of both equity and debt capital." Some criminal kingpins, for example, lend money to people who want to go into honest business. Carter warns...
...addition, BSC's curriculum committee decided Wednesday to extend the deadline for course offerings for the Fall of 1973 to enable the submitting of descriptions for women's studies courses...
...MOOD is one of distance, quiet, and mystery. Characters walk alone through courtyards edged by arcades shadowing old men, scenes recalling the surrealist architectures of De Chirico's paintings, or through landscapes of over-powering perspective: maize fields that extend to the horizon, forests so carefully cultivated that their trunks establish a sort of grid sweeping off behind the actors. Against such backdrops, human figures appear tiny, lost, joined together only be sweeping pans or long, fluid tracking shots. Narrower perspectives guide the eye: corridors that open out of a stuccoed wall, an avenue of tall poplars leading...
...prefect of police, Rene Heckenroth, responded to political pressure to clean up the city by suddenly closing down the 30-odd hotels where the prostitutes took their clients. With that, the girls walked off the job-but not before consulting Lawyer Emile Pollak, who told them to extend their walkout for 30 days. "On the 31st day," he warned, "you'll see what state Marseille wilt...