Word: extends
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...airpower "against North Viet Nam and its forces" until Hanoi has freed every American prisoner. Freeing the prisoners is a goal all Americans fervently desire, but it is questionable whether Nixon's tone and method can achieve it. The new sense of reality about China does not necessarily extend to Viet...
...might find liberation in a 4-ft. cube." Two of the four shelves inside the cube can form a seat while the others fasten into the moldings to form a desk or table. Later, a bed can be made of a pair of shelves-the sleeper's feet extend through a side-window flap. Another variation: a student can open a roof flap, stick head and shoulders out and use the roof as a desk. Cost of an Isaacs cube: about...
...most versatile of the new tools is television. Closed-circuit hookups are now routinely used to give medical students a surgeon's-eye view of operations and enable overworked nurses to watch patients without having to be at the bedside. TV is also employed to extend the reach of physicians, allowing them to see and diagnose patients at a distance. Boston's Logan International Airport, one of the world's busiest, has been linked to Massachusetts General Hospital by a system called Tele-Diagnosis. Those in need of care report to the airport examining room, where...
...committee's action came as it neared completion of a bill that would extend the draft for another two years. The committee also voted to maintain at two years the alternative service requirement for conscientious objectors...
...this case, three men were indicted for disturbing a temperance meeting by "coughing, laughing, whistling, and talking in a loud and boisterous manner." Their counsel argued that the statute should extend only to meetings authorized by law, such as school classes and town meetings, and not "to all the noisy political gatherings of the times." In these, he felt, citizens could express their feelings as they wished. Justice Shaw disagreed and explicitly interpreted the statute to include political gatherings, meetings for amusement, and all public meetings held for lawful purposes. He waxed eloquent on the right of performers and promoters...