Word: stretched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from that point, Bob Ferry's two 10 and 12-ft. jumpers and Harvard's 10 for 10 free throw shooting down the stretch--Carrabino poured in six of them--nullified each Princeton field goal. Never again would the cagers relinquish their slim advantage...
Wright countered with a plan calling for a stretch-out, from five to six years, of most military procurement programs. That, said Wright, would save $100 billion in one grand sweep. He dismissed the White House proposals as a "shopping list of little things that is a waste of time." Wright's stretch-out plan was a politically sly move because it was originally put forward in 1982 by a leading Republican, former President Gerald Ford...
With his team mired in the middle of a nine-games-in-15-days stretch, Ferry's freak accident and subsequent absence from the lineup--the first in his 70-game collegiate career--increased the pressure on his team-mates. "Harvard's not a super-talented team," McLaughlin said...
...Prime Minister may have wished that she were receiving so warm a reaction back home. There, despite a comfortable 144-vote majority in Parliament, Thatcher has encountered an unaccountably bumpy stretch. Her Labor foes in the House of Commons have sharpened their claws under their new leader, Neil Kinnock, and Thatcher's Tory backbenchers have risen up in mini-rebellions. The government's recent decision to ban union members from employment at the super-secret Government Communications Headquarters in Cheltenham, because of the fear of work stoppages that could affect security, was vigorously attacked. Not only Labor...
...films they'd have been given weeks to prepare for." To avert accidents caused by fatigue, the Directors Guild of America has proposed that shooting days for TV series be limited to no more than eight hours. The proposal is opposed by the studios, however, since it would stretch out shoot ing time and, they fear, increase costs...