Word: extends
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...added that the recently-enacted. District of Columbia Crime Bill-a socalled "model bill" which includes permission for police to extend their wiretapping powers, to enter homes without knocking or identifying themselves, and authorizes the courts to impose "preventive detention"-"does contain some elements of repression...
Visions and Demons. Such prohibitions rarely extend to other aspects of the youth culture, which often lends itself remarkably well to the fundamentalist lifestyle. Jesus has always been prominent in hippie mythology, and the ideal of the shared life draws much of its inspiration from the Bible. Edward Plowman also observes that "in the drug scene, many kids develop a spiritual awareness that the alcohol culture, for example, doesn't have. They believe in a spiritual reality. They've seen visions and demons. Thus a conservative Christianity, which hasn't mythed away God and angels, appeals...
...surprise, she is happier than she was before, taking great pride in reading to and helping her older roommate. A difficult decision of the middle-aged is how to allot their resources between children and parents and still provide for their own years of retirement, which may well extend for two decades...
Until recently, Dr. Comfort doubted that these built-in instructions could soon be altered, or the components made to last longer. Because of advances in genetics and molecular biology, however, he now believes that some method to reduce the rate of aging and to extend vigorous life by at least 15 years will be discovered within the next two decades. This extension would be in addition to the roughly five-to-seven-year increase in average life expectancy that will take place when medicine conquers cancer and vascular diseases...
...sorts of piratical and subversive acts of depredation may be committed. Those who esteem the young see their symbolic banner as an emblem revitalizing a tired phrase and an undying hope: the brotherhood of man. If the phrase means anything, it must mean that man's vision should extend to the horizon of his being and not be blinkered by some arbitrary national line squiggled on a map. This is the shaping theme of an attractive and exuberant free-form musical from Japan currently playing off-Broadway...