Word: extent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...very little on their reverses to the weak-side; and they completed just five passes, good for a total of 46 yards. It was only around the strong-side end that the Tigers were able to make good yardage; but they capitalized on this advantage to the fullest possible extent...
VIRTUALLY everything that is known of the Soviet military is, to a large extent, what the Soviets want the world to know. But better intelligence and modern science are helping to make the West less dependent on the Soviet's handout information and on the gleanings of detail-dogging Western military attaches in Moscow. Examples...
Murrow's remedy: more and deeper information, more knowing public-affairs programs, more initiative, more ideas, more guts in radio and TV news. "Let us dream to the extent of saying that on a given Sunday night the time normally occupied by Ed Sullivan is given over to a clinical survey of the state of American education, and a week or two later the time normally used by Steve Allen is devoted to a thoroughgoing study of American policy in the Middle East...
...Casting Director Ed Blum finally had to cross the color line and hire Manhattan Comedian Larry Storch. "The part calls for a sharpie," says Blum, "and the Orientals can't play it. Smoothie, yes; sharpie, no." Otherwise, Blum's cast is out of character only to the extent of one Puerto Rican, one Filipino and one Hawaiian...
...bigger than anyone expected because tax returns dropped in the business slump, so the current deficit may be smaller by $1 billion or $2 billion as business improves and tax payments increase. Says a U.S. Treasury spokesman: "An unbalanced budget does not just of itself create inflation. The extent to which you put it in the banks is the extent of its inflation. This $12 billion will be financed partly by the banks, but that part will not be enough to change the direction of the country. The deficit has become an overemphasized symbol of inflation...