Word: extents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...designers (like Simonetta), turned into a nightmare that left them disenfranchised, with no singular creative identity. "I shouldn't yet take all this for more than a one-season wonder," said Suzy Menkes, the savvy fashion editor of the International Herald Tribune. "All designers are prima donnas to some extent, and I expect Gigli just wanted to teach the Milanese organizers a lesson...
...outright conservative, to put it simply. That is why I think this complicates the process of perestroika. There are, however, some forces behind him. They cannot be defined; they are not organized; you can't identify them as Ivanov or Petrov, but they exist. Not to the extent of representing an opposition to Gorbachev, but a slowing-down factor...
Last week the U.S. arrested and then expelled a Soviet military attache for allegedly trying to steal details of computer-security programs. The incident, as well as the arrest earlier this month of three West German computer hackers suspected of spying for the Soviet Union, highlighted the extent to which rival intelligence agencies are scrambling to devise ways to penetrate one another's security systems...
...decisions were based on stereotypes. To a certain extent, they're all true...
...children taught themselves to a large extent, according to Reed. "After I was about 10," Reed says, "it was pretty much self-teaching. I would order textbooks with my parents, but in math, for example, I don't think either of my parents knew where I was after...