Word: extents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...extent of the Gonzaga art treasures was revealed in the mid-17th | century, a period marking the clan's decline. Smelling a credit crunch, dealers alighted in Mantua to bargain for works by Michelangelo, Raphael, Caravaggio, Veronese and Van Dyke. Simon estimates that 700 paintings by these and other masters were sold, and eventually found various ways into the world's museums. One immovable prize was the Gonzaga pleasure palace at Te, the walls and ceilings of which bloomed with mural paintings that were forerunners of the mannerist style...
...first official reports spoke of "rampage and violence" caused by "hooligans." As sensational rumors reverberated around the country, a Soviet government spokesman admitted to "certain injuries" and even "several" deaths in the southwestern city of Sumgait. The full extent of the carnage was only revealed at week's end, when an anchorman of the national television newscast Vremya read a four-paragraph TASS dispatch in a somber voice. "Criminal elements committed violent actions and engaged in robberies," he reported. "They killed 31 people, among them members of various nationalities, old men and women...
...agenda last week, when Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan appeared on Capitol Hill to give his semiannual report on monetary policy. In a hearing before the Senate Banking Committee, Wisconsin Democrat William Proxmire, the panel's chairman, opened the proceedings with the statement that he was "troubled by the extent of the political pressure being put on the Fed by the Reagan Administration in this presidential election year." When questioned about such pressure, Greenspan acknowledged that he and other Fed officials had received a letter in January from Michael Darby, the chief economist on Baker's Treasury staff. Darby argued...
...send out signals to the world that we expect a high level of quantitative skills," says Paul C. Martin, Vleck professor of pure and applied physics and FAS associate dean for the division of applied sciences. The question that Harvard faces now, according to Martin, is to what extent the requirement should be changed...
...strange bit justifies-to the extent that a Pudding plot requires-Lyfe's complicity in an elaborate hoax masterminded by billionaire "horseshoe magnate" Richard Denuar (Jason Tomarken). Uncertain of his family's affection in his declining years, Denuar hits upon a clever scheme to test the love of his four daughters and sixth wife: He will feign illness and then stage his own funeral to learn his family's true feelings. Only those who love him for himself will earn a share of his fortune...