Word: broadening
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However, persons in this age group did not flock into the program as had been expected, in part because of the opportunity for no active duty which the National Guard and Army Reserve offered. In January, 1957, the Army announced that it would broaden the program by regulation to include the 18 1/2-25 age group, and also require active duty training of all National Guardsmen and Reservists...
...expanded industrially, the state also found it necessary to broaden its cultural and educational opportunities. After several Northern firms rejected the commission's blandishments simply because they did not want to bring wives and children into a cultural desert, Rockefeller and his associates set out to match Arkansas' industrial revolution with a cultural revolution. They scurried all over the state, sparked community playhouses, libraries, symphony orchestras, opera, even established a commission-sponsored Concert Hall of the Air to broadcast classical music. After losing out on a $100 million Glenn Martin guided-missiles plant because Arkansas lacked technical schools...
...next fall, courses in Mathematics above the level of Math 11 and any courses offered by the new department of Statistics will count as "related." Previously, only History, Government, and Social Relations have been considered related fields. This last change is in line with the department's desire to broaden the range of study of its concentrators...
...their mental storehouses. Some 40 colleges currently have courses in creative thought, and thousands of companies are sending their young men back to school. American Telephone & Telegraph Co. has even gone so far as to send a group of executives t.o the University of Pennsylvania to study literature, thus broaden their minds. Dozens of others such as General Motors AC Spark Plug division, General Electric and Boeing Airplane Co. have set up informal courses within the company to educate workers and help them think more effectively...