Word: prolonged
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Woodcock made his remarks after a speech at the Business School's Public Affairs Club yesterday afternoon at which he reaffirmed his determination to prolong the strike into 1971 if a satisfactory settlement is not reached for his union...
...California educational system and attend one of CUNY's seven two-year community colleges. University officials decided that to send all of the high risks to these campuses-the strategy that Agnew and other critics favor-would reinforce the discouragement of many black students and their teachers and prolong de facto segregation...
...saddens brewers as much as it does old grads. Nationwide, beer sales are rising about 11% this year, but around campuses sales are barely holding their own, despite the increasing college population. The tastes of malt and marijuana, it seems, just do not mingle well. Instead, youths seeking to prolong their highs have been turning to a new kind of campus ferment. They are buying cheap, sweet wines, especially two Gallo brands: Ripple and Boone's Farm Apple. Nude swimmers at July's Goose Lake Rock Festival in Jackson, Mich., appreciatively christened one of the beaches they used...
...operation a certain short-term military success that helped ensure that U.S. troops would be withdrawn from South Viet Nam on schedule, or possibly even faster. The only dissenter was New Hampshire Senator Thomas J. Mclntyre, a Democrat, who said that the action had "widened the war" and might prolong rather than curtail U.S. involvement...
...legally marketed while being officially banned? One answer lies in legislative terminology: "cancellation" only starts a review process, which manufacturers can prolong for years while sales continue. Too, the Agriculture Department is mired in a seeming conflict of interest. Charged with regulating most uses of DDT, the department also urges farmers to use it to increase crop yields...