Word: extends
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Blacks newly arrived in the middle class are often too vulnerable economically and psychologically to extend themselves too far for blacks who have been left behind. "They are still aware of the sounds and sights of poverty, of deprivation and oppression," says Atlanta's Mayor Jackson. No less than whites, they are disturbed by black underclass crime, which is no respecter of race. Their homes in the most luxurious suburbs are equipped with burglar alarms and watchdogs. Putting so much trust in education, they fear that lower-class blacks may be a bad influence on their own children. Cornelius...
...arabesques and scribbles record a certainty about shape that could only have been grounded in prolonged discipline. This is even more discernible in the suite of pastels and charcoals that De Kooning made in the early '50s in his vast and ramifying studio at Springs, L.I., to extend and clarify his best-known series of paintings: the Women...
...remember the last year for the death of a great man, Salvador Allende Gossens. Allende was not the only person who died when Chile's upper classes decided that democracy couldn't extend to working people. But because Allende devoted his life to the oppressed, because he tried to see that the undernourished children of the slums of Santiago would have milk to drink, he stands for all the Chilean junta's victims. For more than three years, Chile held out a beacon of hope to the rest of the world. It seemed to prove that people could take power...
Good Company. The benefits even extend to relationships with other women. Students interviewed in the early group complained that women were "competitive and irritable" around other females. Constantly preoccupied with men, they didn't bother to be good company with each other. Having men around, notes the study, seems to encourage greater friendship and respect between women...
...bail out the domestic fleet, Senator Warren Magnuson of Washington and Congressman Gerry Studds of Massachusetts have co-authored a bill that would extend U.S. fishing waters from the present twelve miles to 200 miles. But, fearing that foreign nations would reciprocate with 200-mile limits of their own, the State and Defense departments as well as some U.S. tuna fishermen on the West Coast and shrimpers on the Gulf Coast oppose the bill, and so it is not expected to pass. New England fishermen stand a better chance of getting help from the U.N.-sponsored...