Word: reach
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to a December poll by the Opinion Research Corporation, the percentage of Americans who think rising costs will put higher education out of the reach of most Americans rose from 77 percent in 1985 to 82 percent last year...
...like a good idea at the time. Looking for a relatively painless way to raise funds, Florida Governor Bob Martinez decided to play some creative games with the state's 5% sales tax. Over the voluble protests of many businessmen and lobbyists, he and the Florida legislature expanded the reach of the levy to include many services. Among them: advertising, warehousing and numerous legal, accounting and real estate fees. Last week some fiscal results were in on Martinez's gambit, and they were not good. NBC television announced it was canceling its May 1988 affiliates' convention, scheduled to take place...
...series of rapid-fire discoveries, researchers around the world have begun concocting a different class of materials that become superconductors at significantly higher temperatures -- levels that, while still beyond the reach of a kitchen refrigerator, are easier and less costly to attain. These achievements have had an electrifying effect on a subject that just a year ago would have elicited yawns from physicists and blank stares from politicians. Indeed, hardly a week has passed since the New York City meeting without reports from competing scientists -- in the popular press as well as in professional journals -- of new superconducting materials...
...real source of the project," Kotelchuk said, was a group of community leaders within the housing developments who "knew they had a serious problem." Kotelchuck said Project Life would act through existing local groups to reach those in need, instead of creating an impersonal outside agency...
...elder Palandjian controlled the match by charging in on Leschly's backand shots with volleys and overhead lobs that Leschly could not reach. Palandjian broke Leschly's serve five times with a variety of forehand passing shots. "He had to make his first serves because I was all over his second serves," Palandjian said...