Word: expand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whether the Navy will receive enough money to maintain its 13 carriers and expand the fleet to the nearly 600 ships that Holloway feels will be needed at the end of the century is a question that will be heatedly debated by Congress in the weeks ahead. To reach the Navy's goal would require spending about $5 billion extra annually. Even bringing the fleet up to the more modest level of 500 ships, which the Administration believes should be sufficient, would cost about $500 million a year more than Carter has requested...
...intent to be evenhanded in the Middle East but, specifically, of whether America is prepared to be a reliable friend. As Crown Prince Fahd explains it, the Saudis' relationship with the U.S. involves a basic tradeoff: oil for security. They are prepared to hold down oil prices, expand their productive capacity and help protect the dollar−all of which are vital to the U.S. and its Western allies. In return, they want security...
...Atlanta. Although the city has had an amateur dance company since 1929, it was nearly defunct in 1972. Then Chuck Fischl, an energetic New Yorker with a theatrical background, was brought in as general manager. He and Artistic Director Robert Barnett decided that the company should turn professional and expand. Fischl, now only 28, began promoting ballet throughout Georgia. Result: the company, which once had to venture as far as Alaska to find audiences, now runs two summer schools in Georgia and has established homes away from home in Savannah, Athens and Augusta...
...veterinary school, the first in New England, will have 35 students in its initial class, and will expand to four classes of 100 students each as new facilities are built, Mayer said...
...play," Havergal says. "Anything a director has planted grows in their shape. No director has total control, or needs to stay in total control, and I don't think a director should want to--unless it's a film, where ultimately he does have the final say. The actors expand your concept in many ways; they make a production richer and more personal. And then when the audience comes, and the actor gains the actual experience of performing for them, then the director's work is through...