Word: extents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Updike is always aware of the extent of his presumption. As a male who has lived through the Sexual Revolution, he has experienced the ostensible emancipation of women--from the outside. And he posits himself in a precarious narrative position precisely to explore how men perceive women in a postfeminist world...
...speech before the Soviet Union's Academyof Sciences, a Russian scholar, D.S. Likhachev,charged that library officials initially attemptedto conceal the extent of the damage by bringing ina bulldozer to clear debris quickly. "They triedto minimize the cultural losses in the most coarsefashion," he said...
...Midgetman, and Trident D-5 missiles, and two new aircraft carriers. He would also withdraw up to half of the U.S. troops stationed in Europe. Based on his support for the P L O and on his past anti-Semitic remarks, one must wonder to what extent Jackson will honor this nation's commitment to Israel, and how much he would criticize the Soviets for their treatment of Jewish refusniks...
Together with Co-Author Dr. Robert Kolodny, who directed the research for Crisis: Heterosexual Behavior in the Age of AIDS (Grove Press), the first couple of sex treatment charge the government with "benevolent deception" in downplaying the extent and nature of the epidemic. Among their assertions...
Jesse Jackson profited in the South, winning more votes than any other Democrat. He enlarged his delegate count to the extent that his candidacy, his point of view and, most important, his constituency will have to be courted carefully and sincerely by his party...