Word: extend
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...somewhat desensitized and disillusioned by the all-too-familiar scenario: The imperialist "liberator" of the region, in an effort to extend and protect its domain, attacks a strategically placed--but militarily defenseless--country in its "backyard." Haunted by past war failures and a need to justify an awesome war machine, the "liberator" fears that the resources of the neighboring country may slip from its control...
While the book's plot is not always able to sustain suspense, Turow's style is perhaps the book's most consistent and sturdy feature. Turow writes simply and directly, with sentences that rarely extend for more than two lines. But though they are short, he packs a lot of description into them. Occasionally, Turow carries an extended metaphor that is pithily expressive; he once ties together in one paragraph Clara's preoccupation with music and death...
...find was doubly lucky for Stager. Not only did his team make an important discovery but it did so during a visit by Leon Levy, a New York businessman who is the dig's financial backer. Levy's reaction was to extend funding for the project, which started five years ago, for a decade...
...intention to expand Europe-wide but is taking its time. The bank last year bought a 13% share in Nuovo Banco Ambrosiano of Italy and is said to be scouting elsewhere. Other French banks are more hesitant. Both Credit Commercial and venerable Societe Generale have decided not to extend retail- banking networks outside their home territory. "The practice of offering universal banking services seems to us to be limited to the national territory," says Societe Generale chairman Marc Vienot. Abroad, "we plan to find niches." One example: Societe Generale's recent purchase of the investment-management firm Touche Remnat...
...NATO allies into ponying up an additional $15 billion or so. Colleagues suspect Kohl's real motive is to buy Moscow's consent to German unification and to a unified Germany's membership in NATO, for cash. Bush told his press conference, "I have some big problems" with extending aid at this time. One, he said, is that "a great percentage" of Soviet gross national product is still going into military spending. Also, Moscow has continued to extend aid to anti-American regimes in Afghanistan, Angola and, worst of all, Cuba. Now that Bush has in effect agreed that...