Word: reach
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...program with its already heavy emphasis in the South, will now expand more heavily into the Midwest and West. McCarthy said he hopes the project can reach the Puerto Rican population of New York City, which has been a prime target of the program...
Slight Miscalculation. Unless the birth rate slumps much farther than it has, the number of births will inevitably start up again within the next few years as children born in the boom reach marriageable age. Recent population projections for the end of the century have ranged all the way from 263 million to 388 million, but most experts are reluctant to be pinned down on long-term figures, pointing out that the most reliable study in the early '40s projected a population of 165 million for the year 2000-a figure exceeded more than a decade...
...ripped Thera around 1470 B.C., however, it caused the central and western part of the little island to sink and generated tsunamis (seismic sea waves) between 100 and 165 feet high. "Within 20 minutes, these waves hit the Cretan coast with terrifying fury," says Marinates, "destroying everything they could reach." The waves were accompanied by a rain of volcanic ash that buried nearly everything left standing and by fumes that poisoned the population. In the wake of the catastrophic eruption, most of the surviving Minoans fled Crete, sailing to other Mediterranean islands, mainland Greece and even Asia Minor...
...college of nation building, "extra-curricular" activities are extremely important. Kivukoni does its best to reach beyond its fulltime students. Weekend seminars on nutrition or the implementation of the Five Year Plan were held for outsiders. On the college's weekly radio program, "Bwana Mpango" (Mr. Planner) discusses the Five Year Plan with housewives, school boys, farmers, or the unemployed. Mbionl (On the Move), the college's monthly paper, is another attempt to reach a wider circle of potential nation builders...
Seltzer is trying the same idea on a smaller scale next year in Hum 103, but it is by no means certain that this will work, for even with too many people in the course, director George Hamlin had to reach outside Hum 4 for part of his cast...