Word: extend
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...doubt you could do it," Wilson says. "Once you extend the right of democratic rule, you can't take it back. You could try to persuade people, but I'm not optimistic." Price adds that since "the whole trend of the nation for 200 years has been toward direct democracy, it'd be very hard to rationalize going back to what people would call 'smoke-filled rooms.'" But Mansfield says, "It needs to be explained to people that there's a correlation between the mediocre choices we have now, and the primary process...
Instead of a blanket inclusion in the program of all suppliers, the Carter Administration wants a more modest, and less costly, reform. This would extend coverage only to suppliers of actual, essential components. What is more, such companies would have to show that at least 50% of their output had been going to the firm being directly hit by the import competition...
...almost too sweet. You've got to stand for something as a captain--you can't be silent," she says. "I don't worry about Annie on the field because she's proven herself over and over again. I just think that it's time for her to extend herself and share her talents with the less experienced players," she adds...
...should be allowed to command our military. Obsessed with fears of Russian imperialism and spreading Marxism, neither Reagan nor his likely advisers fit that description. And even if the mushroom clouds never appear on the horizon, their "hard-nosed" approach to diplomacy seems likely to maintain and extend America's relationships with the "free world's" worst military dictators and tyrants...
...that subject takes an uncanny turn toward Forbert soliloquizing about how people need direction and motivation, how--if they haven't found it yet--they should continue to search. For the first time, eloquence of a sort enters the room. Out of the mud, the lotus flower blooms. I extend a handshake, happy to have what few notes I have, catch an L.A.-bound plane and spend the next three days and nights pondering how to frame this gaunt communication into a story...