Even the extension issue involved the merger, with Time Warner demanding a bargaining deadline for eight months from now -- presumably after federal regulators had already acted on the AOL deal.
When Lincoln and Douglas debated the slavery extension issue in 1858, therefore, they were addressing the problem that had divided the nation into two hostile camps and that threatened the continued existence of the Union.
The Compromise of 1850 provided a temporary respite from sectional strife, but the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 a measure Douglas sponsored brought the slavery extension issue to the fore once again.
The construction of the International Celestial Reference Frame is discussed as well as its first extension issued in 1999.
The war reopened the slavery-extension issue, which had been largely dormant since the Missouri Compromise.
Under "normal times," Mr. Hansen said, "the press would be having a field day" over the patent-extension issue now in play.
After 1840 Locofoco political influence was largely confined to New York, and by the end of the decade many Locofocos were allied with the Barnburner Democrats, who eventually left the party over the slavery-extension issue.
The mayor has rarely allowed commissioners -- and by extension, their issues -- to take center stage, even on a matter as mundane as the pre-Passover survey of matzo prices.
Once Tessera responds to the action, which it intends to do, the examiners may reopen prosecution, issue another extension, or issue a notice that Tessera may appeal the examiners' decision.
Has Katrina brought to light a divided city in New Orleans, and, by extension, race issues in the nation?
