Word: stretched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...First Blood, the unappreciated Rambo was goaded into waging a one-man war against National Guardsmen in the mountains of the Pacific Northwest. In the sequel, after a stretch in prison, he moves from a surrogate Viet Nam to the real thing. At the request of his former commander (Richard Crenna), Rambo takes on a dangerous reconnaissance mission to search out MIAs in Viet Nam. Sure enough, he finds some in a supposedly deserted prison camp, guarded by sinister Vietnamese and their evil Soviet overlords. But his mission is sabotaged by the top military brass, who want to close...
Oilmen would finally lose their long-cherished depletion allowance. It would be phased out over five years, except on the very smallest wells (those producing 10 bbl. a day or less). But oil operators saved a far more important tax benefit. The Treasury had originally wanted to make them stretch out over a period of years write-offs for "intangible drilling costs," including everything from engineering studies to geologists' expenses. The final plan, however, allows the oil operators to continue taking all the write-offs immediately. While industry lobbyists still protested the impending death of the depletion allowance, some individual...
...Somehow, this story leaked, and Masako was subjected to a barrage of entreaties from political organizers, including a full two-hour telephone offensive in one stretch. I declined to run in any case," he added...
...housing system, inculcate a few good liberal values, and let people interact The University, being the bastion of free speech that it is, allows all points of view to be expressed and thus brings us all into contact with "different" ideas According to theory, thus allows us to stretch our imagination to us limits...
...owner of the Growers Market, a wholesale garden store at 889 Memorial Dr., won a temporary restraining order May 17 against the Massachusetts District Commission (MDC), a state agency which maintains Memorial Drive, for its weekly blockade of the stretch in front of the store...