Word: extends
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kissinger left a tenured chair in the Government Department in 1968 on a two-year leave of absence to work as a foreign policy advisor for President Nixon. When the leave of absence expired in 1970 the Government Department voted to extend it for two extra years "in recognition of Kissinger's qualities...
...deadline approached, the Israelis pleaded for more time, but the commandos refused, saying that they had no authorization to extend the limit. At 5:27, General Gur gave the order to open fire on the school. The firefight lasted only twelve minutes, but as Gur said later, "they were the longest minutes of my life." Israeli soldiers under a barrage of fire managed to reach the explosives and neutralize them. One of the three Palestinians was immediately killed by sniper fire. Another was wounded, but was still able to toss grenades and fire his automatic weapon pointblank at the screaming...
...Purple Line." Kissinger had persuaded the Israelis to extend to the Syrians what the Israelis described as their maximum concessions. They were willing to withdraw from most of the territory in Syria that they had captured last October, and even from some land on the Golan Heights west of the "purple line," as the post-'67 war boundary is colored on Israeli maps. The Israelis were also willing to give up much of the bomb-blasted Golan town of Quneitra and allow a limited number of Syrian refugees to return there. Their conditions for disengagement included a United Nations buffer...
...basic strategy and has continued to establish K Marts, which account for about 90% of the firm's annual volume, at the accelerated pace of 100 or more a year. Earlier this month the company opened its 700th discount store. Dewar has recently be gun to extend the chain into smaller cities with populations between 10,000 and 30,000. He has chosen not to vary the formula that Cunningham laid down in the early '60s - namely growth and then more growth...
...indictments have increased support for bills before the Massachusetts legislature that would require physicians to try to extend the lives of even unviable fetuses and forbid experiments like the ones for which the doctors were indicted. The case has also worked a hardship on Boston's poor. Despite its limitations, overworked B.C.H. has been one of the few places in the city where those who could not afford to pay could end unwanted pregnancies. As a result of the indictments, the hospital has forbidden abortions except in medical and psychiatric emergencies...