Word: lengthening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said that in order to alleviate school systems' "severe problems," administrators should design more demanding curricula, assign more homework, lengthen the school year, and upgrade faculty training and salaries...
...make it as students with the support were getting said English I A Charles Fergenott. Fergenott said that teaching loads help lengthen the time English graduate students take to complete their dissertation from five to seven years...
...track's outstanding feature is the synthetic composition of its surface. An optimal level of "compliance"--a measure of the track's response to pressure--will minimize the contact time of a runner's foot and simultaneously lengthen his strides...
...women managing prisons are generally not sadists, and the ordinary, lawful discipline at their disposal is great. Withholding privileges such as weekly phone calls or Monday Night Football is, amid the blank, shuffling tedium of prison life, no small punishment. For more intractable violators, officials can lengthen prison terms by docking "good time," the sentence-shortening days an inmate earns for obedience. Or they may place troublemaking prisoners in some form of solitary confinement...
...talks broke down. The affairs of the islands would be run not by any international body but by Rex Hunt, who would be returned to his post as governor. The British also intend to keep a garrison, initially of about 3,000 troops, on the Falklands indefinitely and to lengthen the runway at Port Stanley so that it could handle high-speed, longer-range jets such as Phantom multirole fighters and Buccaneer strike aircraft. If the need ever arose, these planes could carry out attacks on the Argentine mainland...