Word: extends
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whom are appointed by Saigon, will choose hamlet officials. The province chiefs will also appoint-without the approval of elected village councils, which has heretofore been required -the staff and administrative officers in every hamlet and village in the country. The effect of the decree is to extend Thieu's control right down to the level where most Vietnamese make their most immediate-and sometimes their only-contact with government...
...city has already made plans to extend the MBTA subway line out to Fresh Pond and he explored the possibility of building a giant underground garage. Many developers--inspired by the boom the library is expected to bring to the Square--have announced plans to build high-rise apartments, hotels and luxury stores. For example, Kanovas Corporation has received permits to build a 19-story structure next to the library site which city planning officials say will be a Holiday...
Contours of the Kennedy Center are somewhat more cloudy. About two acres of the 11-acre site will be given to Harvard for the Kennedy School of Government. A large plaza, called Commonwealth Plaza in appreciation of Massachusetts's grant of the MBTA land, will extend over much of the area. Open all parking for at least 600 cars, and more probably 1000, will be provided by the Library. The ceremonial entrance to the Center will stand at the corner of Memorial Drive and Boylston...
...looking for it. One of the most heartening things about Junior Bonner is the growth it shows in its director. Peckinpah looks honestly at the world with a view he could only extend into grotesquerie in Straw Dogs. He knows this Arizona territory, and thus is in such a position of strength that he can love the fools without killing them. Working from that base, if he can now move toward American subjects set in more pertinent modern points farther east and west, he might become one of the first American filmmakers to inform or enrage his audiences...
...sector of the occupied city and were later included in what is now East Berlin, even though they protruded like a battered thumb into central West Berlin. In 1961, when the Communists built the Wall to close off their portion of the divided city, they did not bother to extend the barrier around the perimeter of the barren site. Instead, they simply sealed it off from the rest of East Berlin with their "death strip...