Word: expand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...level, the Israeli decision to expand the controversial settlements was an effort to appease the right-wing zealots in Jerusalem's ruling Likud coalition, who believe that Begin gave away too much at Camp David. By announcing that the settlements would be enlarged, Begin was trying to strengthen his position in the coalition and ensure that his own party would eventually approve the peace treaty by a wide margin...
...pushing agricultural exports even harder. For example, U.S. negotiators at the world trade talks in Geneva might insist that the nation will do nothing to open the U.S. market wider to European and Japanese goods unless industrialized nations let in more American-grown food. The Government might also expand its aid?$10 million this year ?to farmers who organize cooperative groups that develop foreign markets. One tempting target: China, which has just begun to buy U.S. meat and grain and could use more. Carter has signed a new law that permits indirect Government loans to finance food exports...
...does not get pains, but Benedict admits to some anxiety about taking over failed farms: "Any farm closing is traumatic. You worry that the fellow who sells out knows something you don't because he's shutting down and you're taking on debts to expand." But in his view expansion is the only way to make money: "Each acre produces so little profit that all you can do is go for bigger acres and make sure that each acre produces more crop." So, besides buying land, he has purchased so much machinery that it requires a football-field-sized...
...most important question in American agriculture. High interest rates, soaring prices for land, machinery, fertilizer and pesticides, and the very fact that farmers must operate on a large scale to be fairly confident of regular profit, make it difficult for operators of small- and medium-sized farms to expand and even tougher for young farmers to get started...
...universe's present mean density (the amount of matter per unit of space) exceeds three atoms per cubic meter then the universe is closed. If the universe is insufficiently dense, as current but incomplete results indicate, then it is open and will continue to expand, he said...