Word: extents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stood to leave, Gore told Chernomyrdin that there was something else he should have. He handed the Russian a manila envelope containing a reminder of the most fundamental reason why both countries needed to succeed--a draft of a yet unreleased State Department report, prepared overnight, laying out the extent of the ethnic cleansing that was taking place in Kosovo...
...police department being part of `Harvard University Police and Security' threatens some officers to the extent that they deeply resent that their business cards and stationary mention even security," Kelling wrote in his report...
...clear that several hundred, and perhaps even several thousand languages, will vanish forever in the next century. To the extent that these languages express unique cultures, and form part of the mosaic of human intellectual activity, we must do everything we can to document them--and hopefully even save some of them--before it's too late...
Harvard officials may well find that theirgrandiose vision cannot be realized, at least tothe extent they now imagine. The University'sdecentralized set-up--in which the president andothers charged with overseeing the wholeUniversity have minimal power to makecomprehensive change--will make it difficult toput many of the planned innovations into place...
...some extent, though, student activists bring the comparison onto themselves. The imagery of the '60s is a powerful weapon and, at least at Harvard, student activists have been willing to exploit...