Word: extends
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...third demand, the Graduate Students Union has called for the University to rescind its decision to extend full tuition charges to third-year graduate students beginning the year after next. The University currently charges graduate students a reduced tuition of $1000 after their second year since they ordinarily stop taking courses beyond that point...
...Suzanne's bent toward homemaking and shared joys does not extend to having children. "If I were to conceive," she says frankly, "I would have an abortion. I like children very much. I consider it an enormous challenge to raise them the way they should be raised. It takes an awful lot of time and energy and intellect to raise them to cope with the problems of a pretty crummy world. But I would rather deal with life directly than through a child." Suzanne has talked with doctors about sterilization, but has reached the conclusion that she does...
...stopped at its inception--in Vietnam. But in the communique both sides agreed, "Neither should seek hegemony in the Asian-Pacific region." So Nixon could claim at home that he solved the Vietnam war (in Peking just as everyone claimed he would), stopped the "Yellow Hordes" from seeking to extend their influence (there is no evidence to suppose that they had tried in the first place), and pacified the Dragon...
While the Portugese had still been at peace with the Kongo, they had sent troops south to the Kingdom of N'Gola, or Angola, to extend their slave-trade resources. Portugal waged war for human capital, either capturing the Africans or buying them cheaply from black client chieftans. One explanation of their march on Angola and forcible seizure of its natives is that the cotton cloth and other goods which the Portugese had up till then used in barter for slaves were of such inferior quality that the Africans refused to do business. Indeed, through the history of her subjugation...
...rejection of Professor Herrnstein's theories. We continue to urge critical appraisal of Professor Herrnstein's article, as well as the public challenging of ideas which may lead to the furthering of an unjust social structure. And just as strongly, we condemn those people who will cruelly extend their opposition to a man's ideas into intimidation of the man himself...