Word: extents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what extent, it was asked, did individuals have to accept the actions of those with whom they disagreed? When, for example, did an ill-advised, aggressive pass become offensive? When did angry confrontation become a channel for bigotry? When did a protest intended to "protest hate with love" become repulsive, if ever...
...statement was an improvement on one he made in April, when he accepted the inclusion of the Khmer Rouge in a coalition as "a fact of life." Last week he went on to say that American support for a new Cambodian government "will directly and inversely depend on the extent of Khmer Rouge participation...
...today. So inevitably that leads everyone in Mexico to view the problem of drugs as less important, and less directly relevant to Mexico, than the way the U.S. perceives the problem. Whether this is fair or not fair, nice or not nice, is irrelevant. To a certain extent this perception is changing in certain parts of the country, not because there is a drug-addiction problem emerging but because there is a level of criminality associated with drug trafficking that is reaching alarming proportions...
...result of the past decade's stagnation is that many whites and blacks have given up on integration as a goal that can be achieved or that is even entirely desirable. "To the extent that white folks had a notion of integration, it meant that more and more black folks would become more like us," says white historian David Garrow, a biographer of Martin Luther King Jr. This political climate has left many black leaders disheartened. "We don't have a clue on how to proceed," says Eleanor Holmes Norton, a top civil rights official in the Carter Administration...
...some extent, however, action belies bravado. Consumer spending, which typically accounts for two-thirds of economic activity and provided most of the oomph for the expansion, is starting to falter. Auto sales have stalled dramatically, contributing to a drop in total retail sales of 0.4% last month and 0.1% in May, the first back-to-back monthly declines since September and October of 1986. Industry is showing the same trend. U.S. factories operated at 83.5% of capacity in June, down from a high of 84.3% in January, a strong indicator that the economy has passed the peak in its current...