Word: extents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...signed a peace accord. An Air Force study concluded that the key lessons were to hit hard and use precision weapons. "Precision weapons gave NATO airmen the ability to execute a major air campaign that was quick, potent and unlikely to kill people or destroy property to an extent that would cause world opinion to rise against the operation," the study concluded...
...Spielberg's colleagues say he simply doesn't want to run a full-fledged film division cranking out a dozen or more movies a year. "We've been fairly vocal in saying that there's only a certain extent to which we can change our stripes and become pure executives," Parkes says. "We're happier focusing on a smaller number of pictures."(Spielberg declines to comment...
...shouldn?t be surprising. ?Evolution is one of the most significant ideas of the last century,? says Kluger, ?and for some it has come into conflict with fundamental religious beliefs.? That there should be tension between the realms of science and theology is normal, and to some extent healthy for both. It sharpens the arguments and the inquiries. But if the teaching of evolution is pushed out of the schools, says Kluger, ?information will be withheld from students and the long-range potential will be to crimp scientific development.? There may be another casualty: the enlightening possibility of reconciling...
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When it had to assign some residents to theJordan overflow facility, Graham says his hope wasnot to force students to live there. Rather, theHouse solicited students and found several whowere willing to live there voluntarily, mitigatingthe issue to some extent...