Word: expand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Expand Budget Three-Fold...
...time, I think, for a re-examination of the place of the military at Harvard. If there are any places in the world today which should remain aloof from the current militaristic trend, these places are our universities. Rather than permit the ROTC units to expand, let us, instead, throw them out of the University entirely. Franklin E. Kameny, GSAS
Supreme Court justices frequently interpret the Constitution, occasionally expand on it, and sometimes make a wide end run around it. Last week Associate Justices William O. Douglas and Robert H. Jackson tried something different: they wrote an opinion lobbying for an amendment to change it. In a formal dissent to a decision in the case of Alabama's presidential electors,* Douglas and Jackson took their stand with those who want to abolish the whole antiquated system of electing the President and Vice President of the U.S. by state electoral votes, rather than by straight popular vote...
...drive to expand industrial production, the Defense Production Administration last week okayed the biggest single quick-tax-write-off in its history: a $298 million project for Minnesota's Erie Mining Co. Most businessmen had never heard of the company and they were baffled by its purpose, which is to "beneficiate" an ore named taconite...
...corruption, there was some good to be said for Cuba's seven-year-old democratic regime. Havana under Grau and Prío was a haven of free speech and free thought. They built schools, hospitals and highways. They gave Cuba a national bank, made loans to expand industry and diversify agriculture, and improved labor standards in a land plagued by seasonal unemployment. And, despite fantastic sums spent to sway elections, they kept the way open for democratic change...