Word: extention
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said. "If the U.S. pulls out of the region, the weight of China will be too great for the small countries of Southeast Asia to bear. They will all become Maoized." A year ago, during a tour of Cambodia's northeast provinces, Sihanouk saw for himself the extent of Communist occupation. Subsequently, the prince said that he had had enough of the Communist intruders. So had many of his countrymen...
...researchers used several experiments to test the extent and validity of the woman's eidetic ability...
...still the object of fascination and controversy, not because of the agonies of the Laotians but because of new diplomatic maneuvering and the discomfort of the Nixon Administration. Instead of quashing congressional criticism of the U.S. role in the war, the White House's explanation of the extent and nature of the U.S. involvement in Laos has only brought on a new dispute...
...between Newsday's Guggenheim and Norman Chandler, chairman of the executive committee of the Times Mirror Co. (which publishes the Los Angeles Times), began three weeks ago. "The Captain," ailing at 79, is anxious to divest himself of the paper, and Chandler is anxious to buy, to the extent of a reported $75 million worth of Times Mirror stock. The rub: Minority Stockholders Joseph Albright (Newsday's Washington bureau chief) and Alice Albright Hoge, the heirs of Mrs. Guggenheim (Alicia Patterson), were balking. At Newsday itself, at least 124 reporters and editors signed a petition protesting the sale...
...their Chamber of Commerce talk about long-range planning, many U.S. businessmen have shown a deep-seated distrust of planning, particularly by the Government. They have often been surprised and overwhelmed by the extent of growth and demand. In some cases they did not spend enough for expansion because the slow growth of the late 1950s and early 1960s misled them into believing that American consumers were becoming sated. But in many instances, managers simply skimped on spending to dress up their balance sheets. Says Mason Haire, professor of management at M.I.T.: "Too many companies still reward executives for short...