Word: extention
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...techniques actually reduce crime or merely shift it elsewhere. A year ago, when his men mounted full-time stakeouts at some of the city's most vulnerable banks, holdups dropped drastically?but armed robberies of liquor stores, service stations and individuals increased sharply. No one even knows to what extent crime statistics are rising simply because police forces are working harder and citizens are thus willing to report more crime...
...pedestrians as well as peace demonstrators. Leary has been unable to change hidebound promotion policies that, critics charge, still give credit for blood donations but not for educational advancement. Because the finest stubbornly protect one another, Mayor John Lindsay recently appointed a special citizens' commission to investigate the extent of police graft ?and thereby provoked the patrolmen's association into trying to block the probe in court...
...what extent is the U.S. now committed to help yet another Southeast Asian country as a result of the Cambodia raids? President Nixon has flatly ruled out the further use of U.S. ground troops in Cambodia, but Washington is rushing $7,900,000 worth of military supplies to Phnom-Penh, is bargaining with Thailand to supply men at U.S. expense, and would like to encourage an all-Asia defense effort. One knowledgeable observer says that Washington plans to use "everything up to the introduction of ground combat troops." Last week, after U.S. bombers were reported flying in support of Cambodian...
Though collegians obviously dislike the Viet Nam War, the extent and sincerity of their feelings remain elusive. Two Swarthmore psychologists, Kenneth Gergen and his wife Mary, have just completed a nationwide poll showing that campus antiwar sentiment has deeply and often illogically altered student attitudes toward parents, careers, religion and just about everything that touches their lives...
...there are some curves in the track. The foreign systems follow a cost-be-damned philosophy and lose staggering sums. The Japanese railroads lose $1,000,000 a day. Many of the overseas systems are operated partly as make-work projects and are featherbedded to an extent that would shock even a U.S. rail unionist...