Word: extend
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...United Press story revealed yesterday that Johnson recently told President Truman a three-year addition to the draft is "essential" to national security. Vinson, in a telegram received earlier this month, expressed confidence that Congress would not extend...
With more ballets, Balanchine figures he can extend his season beyond its skimpy three weeks each fall and spring, keep his already devoted dancers eating a few more square meals a year. That too would be all right with Budgeteer Baum. He believes that City Center, which now operates 30 weeks a year (14 weeks of opera, eight of theater, six of ballet, two of modern dance), should operate a minimum of 40 weeks. And, says he, "I'll take 52 weeks straight if I can get them...
...negligible amount of publicly-produced power. The Hoover Dam had been commissioned to sell falling water, not electricity, to the private utilities. Under the New Deal, public power was used to bring electricity to markets that had been ignored by the private companies. Now the Fair Deal promises to extend the field and is brushing shoulders with already established companies. In most cases, public power drives out private companies...
Bush feels that we must make democracy work to keep itself prepared for at least a generation, working at the same time to extend this democracy throughout the world. His definition of democracy is a broad one--it includes using our technical progress unselfishly to achieve economic as well as political freedom. This makes good sense indeed...
WASHINGTON, D.C.--Congress is so seared of universal military training in peacetime that "there isn't a chance in the world" it will extend the draft law next year, according to top members of the House Armed Services Committee...