Word: extents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spent my days in math class fantasizing about Wendy, imagining the two of us doing really neat things like going to a movie or sharing cotton candy at the amusement park (I was only nine, and that really was the extent of my imagination). But I never told her how I felt, for fear of rejection or a big "Blech...
...Moscow conference made plain the huge pitfalls of a superpower crisis in the nuclear age. "The horrifying extent to which we all misunderstood what was going on," said McNamara, "is the absolutely fundamental lesson for the future. Given what's at stake, crises are too dangerous to manage. They must be avoided...
...while the controversy about the extent of minority involvement in the plan may be subsiding, disputes about the political motivations of the plan's opponents are not likely to fade...
Khong says the U.S. should be aware of Japan, and Ulam says, "I think to some extent the Reagan administration kept pushing problems under the rug, and those problems--Japan, Western Europe--they all come...
...publicity has focused on AIDS during the past few years, several other sexually transmitted diseases are quietly spreading their own net of contagion. Some old scourges, like syphilis, are making comebacks, and more recently recognized infections, such as genital herpes and chlamydia, are moving swiftly through the population. The extent of the epidemics is unknown, since only a fraction of the cases are reported to health officials. Experts think at least 25 STDs strike millions each year, primarily teenagers and young adults...