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Word: extents (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...suppose one way of thinking about what we're doing now is sort of walking our way around the landscape, learning about the landscape in order to decide to what extent we want to have a more formal look at any particular aspect," says Pilbeam...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: Faculty Lays the Groundwork for Expansion | 10/20/1989 | See Source »

Baseball commissioner Fay Vincent said there were cracks in the stadium and the extent of damage would not be known until later in the night. No major injuries were reported...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Quake Interrupts Series | 10/18/1989 | See Source »

...although the goals and positions of the new traditionally Jewish organization are to some extent questionable, his argument showed little appreciation for the need for a new breed of social organization. Students are attempting to broaden the organized social life of a University whose present system caters almost exclusively to prep-school WASPs and old-boy legacies...

Author: By Madhavi Sunder, | Title: Need to Go National? | 10/17/1989 | See Source »

...lose any immediate family members in the genocide of the 1930s and 1940s, but many members of my extended family who had not followed the migratory path of my great-grandparents were killed in the Nazi concentration camps. The extent of the loss is overwhelming and is something I have trouble accepting...

Author: By Lawrence B. Finer, | Title: My Search for Jewish Unity | 10/10/1989 | See Source »

...supplies a day into the devastated Charleston area. U.S. Marines on bulldozers removed rubble, and Navy personnel repaired bridges and provided generators. Congress passed a $1.1 billion relief fund for all Hugo's American victims, but Charleston Mayor Joseph Riley complained mildly that Washington may not have "understood" the "extent of the damage." President Bush belatedly visited the area for two hours on Friday. Responding to complaints that federal help had been too slow, Bush said he understood the "frustration," even while he insisted that "the Federal Government has moved, and moved expeditiously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hurricanes: Picking Up The Pieces | 10/9/1989 | See Source »

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