Word: extends
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clouded by tension between the Republican White House and the overwhelmingly Democratic Congress. One relatively uncontroversial approach is to increase Government help to the unemployed. Last week the House passed and the Senate seemed ready to approve bills that would offer unemployment compensation to 3 million more workers and extend benefits for at least 13 additional weeks. Both houses of Congress voted in favor of measures that would provide $2 billion (House version) or $4 billion (Senate version) to states and cities so that they could hire the unemployed for public service jobs such as library aides, hospital assistants...
...Bruins will seek to avenge last weekend's 5-3 defeat in Providence, when the Crimson's Paul Haley scored a hat trick to pace Harvard's offense. The Crimson, 3-0 in the Ivy League, will try to extend its unbeaten streak to six games, while Brown will attempt to better its 2-1 Ivy record...
...extend my sincerest congratulations to Dan Jiggets upon his election as captain of the 1975 Harvard varsity football squad...
Among other things, he would have the Government use revenues from an in creased gas tax to extend unemployment compensation from 39 weeks to a full year. As he told the Detroit News in announcing his plan: "We have to think about the social consequences if things continue in the old way. You can't expect people to sell apples on the street corners as they did in the 1930s." Another reason for a high gasoline tax, though one that Ford did not mention, is that it would discourage consumption and so reduce U.S. dependence on exorbitantly priced imported...
...horse stumbles that hath four legs. In the case of George "Dark Horse" Harrison, one might extend that proverb to include a certain two-legged species. From all that I've heard, there still seems to be a lot of wrinkles left to iron out in Harrison's present tour. Let's hope the horse regains his footing at least in time for the Boston date. George Harrison at the Garden on Tuesday...