Word: extention
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...radio, watch television and go to the movies, where they are also barraged with propaganda.* But with a lifetime of constant practice, Soviet citizens develop a mental filter that allows them to block out the ideological exhortations and concentrate instead on entertainment or just-the-facts news?to the extent that facts are printed...
...large have their principal following in the West. They sometimes behave like high officials of a shadow government, hoping to get their manifestoes played back into the Soviet Union by Western radio, but the resonance of those messages among their countrymen seems to be very faint. To the extent that they have an impact, the dissidents are often dismissed by the general public as reckless dreamers or denounced as traitors, which is just the way the official press portrays them...
...only the extent of juvenile crime that worries the Soviets but the ideological contradiction that is involved: in a Communist society antisocial behavior should be on the wane. "It hits the regime where it hurts most," says the University of South Carolina's Gordon Smith, who has written extensively on Soviet youth and criminal justice. At the root of the problem are such social ills as alcohol abuse, broken families, crowded living conditions-and boredom. "Drunkenness," says Police Lieut. General Pyotr Oleinik, "is the mother of hooliganism...
...Chrysler financial bailout bill passed by Congress last December. The measure, sponsored by Idaho Republican Senator James A. McClure, allows carmakers to include electrics in meeting their federally mandated 1985 corporate average fuel-efficiency rating of 27.5 rn.p.g. Since the electrics use no gasoline, Detroit, to the extent its output includes EVs, will be able to turn out larger, less efficient-and thus more profitable-gasoline-powered cars. That was a clever political end run, yet no one is complaining. Says Paul Brown, who heads the EV program at DOE: "It was just good, practical politics...
...transformed into mushrooming debts of $980 million, Bunker, Herbert and Lamar Hunt have been struggling all spring to fend off ruin. Papers on file last week in the Dallas County Courthouse, and elsewhere around the country, showed just how desperate their plight has become, as well as the extent of their fabled wealth...