Word: extention
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...support to the Afghan insurgents. More important, he has bestowed his blessing on Banisadr in a manner that could not be mistaken. In this, he reflected the changing political mood of the country itself. Most Iranians seem ready to put the excesses of the revolution behind them. To the extent that Banisadr represents this changing mood, Khomeini is not likely to oppose...
...culture would risk their dollars or digestions today on such tourist emporiums as San Juan and St. Maarten. The American Virgins have mostly been deflowered by developers; St. Croix has seen mindless racial killing. Trinidad and Jamaica, Barbados and the Bahamas have become tourist traps. Cuba and, to some extent, Haiti have been mutated; Castroism is infecting other islands, notably Grenada. In many parts of the West Indies, political, economic and social unrest are curdling the coconut milk...
...Soviet invasion of Afghanistan has thrust upon the Carter Administration a question whose answer is not as obvious as it seems: whether-and to what extent-to arm Pakistan. The U.S. suspended both military and economic assistance to Islamabad in April 1979, after concluding that Pakistan was secretly engaged in building a uranium-enrichment plant capable of making atomic bomb materials. That cutoff was required under U.S. laws aimed at preventing the spread of nuclear weapons. Furthermore, Washington has reason to worry about the longevity in office of Pakistan's President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq. Ever since he seized...
...minimum standards of "fair use" are difficult to set, but most professors do not do the same extent of photocopying as Gnomon, Kaufman says...
...Crimson's unexpected depth to a large extent provided the margin of victory. The meet awarded points for the top 12 places, so several Harvard eighth through twelfth place finishers provided needed and welcome points which would not have been awarded in a regular dual meet...