Word: extended
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) voted almost unanimously yesterday to extend by six weeks the period in which a student can change a course from pass-fail to graded...
...that return automatically to the ground floor in case of fire, and outside stairways to allow quick evacuations. Yet no matter how new they are, high-rise hotels-indeed, all high-rise buildings-remain largely out of the life-saving reach of firetruck aerial ladders. Most of them can extend only 90 ft. or so, or as high as the eighth or ninth floor...
...seemed -was watching the antics of the mischievous anthropoid. Unfortunately, fame went to Muggs' head, and he began biting the hands that fed him-and any other piece of exposed anatomy. Four-and-a-half years after he leaped onto the set, he retired to "extend his personal horizons," as NBC'S public relations mill delicately phrased...
...council also voted to send to the planning board a proposal to extend the city's moratorium on institutional conversion of residential housing to other uses...
...shuttle's problems are also a source of grief to planners of another major scientific effort: the placing in orbit around earth of a ten-ton, 96-in. space telescope. Scanning the heavens above the obscuring atmosphere, and radioing back its findings, the robot telescope could greatly extend astronomy's observable universe, allowing stargazers to see farther and deeper into space. The telescope might even be able to pick out the faint traces of planets orbiting nearby stars...