Word: extends
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...offshore each coastal nation can extend its absolute sovereignty...
...industry objected almost immediately. Having found rich deposits of oil and natural gas way beyond the three-or even twelve-mile limit, oilmen wanted the new laws to extend national ocean rights out to the edge of the continental shelf. Energy needs, they argued through the Interior Department, should take precedence over defense considerations...
Privately Burger insists that the court has ended a long period of transition from the Warren era. "We're moving straight down the road, holding to our course," he has said. "Just because we refuse to extend a rule further, some people say we're backing away from progress made by the Warren Court. That is simply not true. In some cases, the Warren Court went too far. Now we're coming out of that phase...
Parkhurst's support for the independent trucker does not particularly extend to other areas of society. As long as truckers get their fuel and their loads, and can drive untroubled on the roads, he has little or no complaint with American society. He is opposed to any form of socialism beyond social security, and attacks mass transit with a vengeance...
...city of Cambridge and the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority are continuing efforts to extend the MBTA Red Line beyond Harvard Square to the proposed Alewife Brook Station near Fresh Pond...