Word: extends
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...took over the store, the discount was a sort of unadvertised special which faculty members who knew about it would take advantage of. For a while, I tried to standardize the policy, that is, to encourage our counter personnel to ask if someone was a faculty member, and then extend the discount to him," he said...
...time when corporate managements are pleading guilty to tampering in domestic and international political matters, and are engaged in numerous other activities that have aroused public ire, some may question the granting of a "blank check" to managements to extend their tenures and reduce their accountability as "socially irresponsible behavior...
Hall's personnel problems extend beyond simply firing people. His hiring policies too have come under fire, especially from those who administer Harvard's affirmative action plan. He admits to "inadvertently" making a serious mistake in ignoring affirmative action requirements when he hired Randall Blank, a young Business School graduate, last fall without listing the position. "I hired him and I shouldn't have without the listing. I goofed that, I blew it. It wasn't intentional, it wasn't meant to circumvent any rules or regulations," Hall said. After Walter Leonard, special assistant to President Bok for minority affairs...
...College administration was considering whether to lengthen Christmas or semester break in order to cut down on energy costs during the height of the crunch, some in University Hall felt that Hall was meddling too much in their affairs. At a press conference to announce the decision to extend Christmas vacation, Dean Rosovsky finally tried to quiet Hall, saying flatly, "Now Steve, I don't think we want to air our dirty laundry in public...
...would not be fair to say that those responsible for Bug are entirely without resource or a sense of novelty, however grotesque. They contrive, for example, to extend the limits of black humor by turning a scene of a woman being burned to death into a laugh sequence. That this is done inadvertently only increases the merriment...