Word: extention
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...courthouse, gun-toting black parents waited impatiently while the school board debated whether or not to open the schools on time. Eventually, the board decided to delay-and the blacks, bitter though they were, decided not to resort to gunplay. What they did do was unburden to Range the extent of their frustration-and hope...
...some extent, Unruh has always been a victim of caricature. He is remembered for two harsh dicta from his assembly days: "Money is the mother's milk of politics," and, speaking of lobbyists: "If you can't take their money, drink their booze, screw their women and look them in the eye and vote against them, you don't belong here." But he was never entirely the Mr. Hyde that his enemies like to imagine. By his driving force he overhauled the ramshackle, lobbyist-dominated state legislature to make it one of the nation's best...
...Administration's policy is to go only as far as the court leads. This fall may produce new directions. The court last week agreed to hear half a dozen cases, including Charlotte-Mecklenburg, at the beginning of the October term. Among the matters to be considered are the extent to which the courts can order busing, the constitutionality of state antibusing statutes and the degree of governmental responsibility to promote school integration...
Thrilling adventure tales are to a large extent translation-proof. But the French colloquially use words like noble and ignoble that in English (and in a rather stodgy translation, too) sometimes make Papillon sound a little like The Rover Boys on Land and Sea. Perhaps more important, the kind of sympathy for Papillon that helped the book so much in France is based on a peculiarly Gallic preoccupation with justice miscarried. For years, France has treated men charged with crimes as guilty until proved innocent, and generally looked upon prison as a place that prisoners should either not survive...
Whether all the loans will be needed depends to a large extent on Woodcock himself. He understands the damaging impact on the economy of either a strike or an inflationary wage increase. His argument for a cost-of-living escalator is that the alternative is worse: unions would be forced to demand more in anticipation of inflation. "I am concerned about constantly escalating future wage increases further distorting the economy and possibly leading to a major recession, if not worse," he said last week. "If you bargain wages to anticipate inflation, then you're guaranteeing that inflation." That caveat...