Word: expand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exception to Parkinson's Law that everything which is tends to persist and everything that does tends to expand and take on bigger things is the Blue Cross. With rising hospital costs and a corresponding need to raise premiums sicklying o'er the healthy hue of resolution, most Blue Cross plans have responded to inflation by restricting benefits rather than extending them. And this loss of "pioneering spirit" has become a matter of concern to prominent Blue Cross and voluntary hospital officials...
...addition of two new professors to the staff has enabled the Department to expand its total program quite substantially. Besides adding new courses in archaeology and cunieform, "we have set up a whole new field in northwestern semitic dialects," Cross explained...
...increased net income is particularly welcome this year because our recent expansion of the Harvard Square store caused a substantial debt," Teele explained. "Additional capital is also needed in order to expand our inventories," he added...
More than any other factor, the problem of cost lies behind the efforts of the state college to expand. By means of this low cost, a public college can attract able students whose parents simply cannot afford a private education. Despite the preaching of Seymour Harris, it is doubtful whether 20year payment plans, interest-free loans, or other similar proposals will enable all persons to enter private schools. State colleges must expand to fill the gap. President Mather's latest report well illustrates this belief...
While every broad segment is expanding, the expansion is relatively slow in manufacturing (total number of firms up only 3% over 1951), faster in transportation, communications and other public utilities (up 18%), and faster still in construction (up 26%). In trade, the supermarket has cut the total number of food and related stores by 14%, but with many more new products to be distributed there has been an 18% expansion in the number of wholesaling concerns. Since 1951, old-fashioned general merchandise stores have declined 9%. But with more and more people on the go, restaurants are up 4%, automotive...