Word: extends
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...Mount Sinai, God was unequivocal: "Thou shalt not commit adultery." Traditionally, most devout Christians have interpreted the Hebraic commandment to extend to all sexual relations outside marriage. Jesus even condemned lustful thoughts, saying that the man who indulged them had "already committed adultery in his heart." But in recent years, pressed both by changing sexual behavior and by liberal theologians, the churches have reluctantly come to grips with a "new morality" that questions whether any "sin"-including adultery or other nonmarital sex -is wrong in all circumstances...
Least Favored Nation. The U.S. Government has been reluctant to offer credit to the Soviets, and they consider that lack to be the biggest block to increased trade. Congress this year gave President Nixon the power to extend to Russia the same Export-Import Bank financing terms now enjoyed by many U.S. trading partners. Last week the President extended Export-Import Bank privileges to Rumania, ending a three-year ban on U.S. credit to Communist-bloc nations. But Nixon has given no clues as to when such financing will actually be granted to Russia, if ever...
...subsequent discussions throughout the week, the Russians asked to be accorded "most favored nation" status by the U.S., a move that would give Russia the same low-tariff access to American markets that other U.S. trading partners enjoy. Kosygin also suggested that the U.S. Export-Import Bank extend Russia the same easy credit arrangements offered to other nations. American refusal to grant credit and the Soviet Union's dearth of hard currency have long limited Soviet trade with...
...universally loved, and a confusion about just what the U.S. role in the world henceforth should be. On Capitol Hill, Administration operatives were still fighting last week to revive the foreign aid bill, which had been killed by the Senate. They achieved partial success when Congress agreed to extend aid until Dec. 8. But then the Senate upset the White House all over again when the Appropriations Committee adopted an amendment requiring the withdrawal of 60,000 troops from Europe by next June. That would reduce U.S. forces in NATO by one-fifth...
...decline of the League of Nations began with the League's refusal to extend its support to Ethiopia against Italy. History will record that the decline of the United Nations began on Oct. 25, 1971, when the U.N. expelled Nationalist China...