Word: expand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fred Jewett '57, dean of admissions and financial aid, said yesterday that he "will try to expand financial aid at the upper end" to compensate for inflation. "We don't want to be priced out of the market," he said...
Sharp Rise. Simon nevertheless favors a rise in some fuel prices, both as a curb on burgeoning demand and as an incentive to industry to expand its search for new sources of fuel needed to attain independence from the Arabs and other foreign oil suppliers. But, recognizing that this approach would bring huge profits to the oil industry, he would couple that carrot to a stick: high taxes on any profits over a certain level that were not plowed back into new exploration, new refinery construction or research and development...
Tough Bargaining. The act in effect gives the government veto power over efforts by foreign firms to start new businesses in Canada, expand present operations into new fields (as opposed to simply increasing capacity), or take over any Canadian company that does more than $3,000,000 a year in business. Plans for any such moves will have to be submitted to a screening agency, which will make a preliminary decision as to whether the proposals promise "significant benefit to Canada": final approval, however, can come only from the Canadian cabinet. "Foreign firms" are defined as those in which...
This month the United Nations General Assembly is virtually certain to approve a plan that would expand the range of Japanese largesse to international education. The Japanese government wants a United Nations University to be built at the new academic town of Tsukuba, 45 miles northeast of Tokyo. First proposed by U Thant in 1969, U.N.U. would have no formal classes or degrees but would be a sort of international think tank for the study of world problems. In addition to its main campus, it would have branches round the globe...
...effect of high velocity ammunition fired by the M-16 rifle is similar to that of the "dum-dum bullet" banned by the Hague Declaration of 1899. The Declaration forbade use of "bullets which expand or flatten easily in the human body...