Word: extents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...order for Michael Dukakis to win, he'd need the support of upwards of 90 percent of that vote with significant turnout. The reaching out to Black voters was never manifested to the extent that it was necessary," said Bolling...
...decision in favor of the President would cement the primacy of the executive branch in foreign affairs. A decision for the Congress could limit the extent to which the President can swiftly act in the nation's interest with the use of military troops...
...Powers Act was a kneejerk response by Congress to the unilateral decisions of Presidents Johnson and Nixon to involve the U.S. military in Vietnam. The Congress was only involved to a limited extent--passing the Gulf of Tonkin resolution which helped legitimize Johnson's and Nixon's actions as constitutional. For the most part, though, the legislature had no effect on presidential initiatives...
...taxed first as corporate income and then as personal income. The European method favors dividend payments and makes stocks more attractive to investors; it should be adopted in the U.S. At the same time, we should limit the federal tax subsidies of speculative corporate debt by reducing, to some extent, the deductibility of interest for overleveraged nonfinancial companies...
...colonized or occupied by a Western power, and even if this reflects nothing but the culture's gift for co-opting foreign influences, it also suggests its facility for remaining just outside the foreigner's reach. Thailand's charms are so real that it is hard to tell the extent to which they are being exploited; and Thailand's magic is so supple that its source remains a secret known only to itself -- and, perhaps, the gods who dreamed...