Word: expand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Brooks says, his involvement has been limited to a couple of phone conversations with Branscomb, and subsequent invitations to submit papers on science policy. Brooks has not yet taken Branscomb up on any of those invitations, but he says his role may expand as the campaign continues...
This spells trouble for Ford, who needs the farm vote, particularly in his Midwestern home base. For one thing, Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz has been urging farmers for several years to expand production. Also, they are still smarting from the embargoes on grain exports imposed by the Nixon and Ford administrations in an effort to stem food price increases...
This season Bionic Man Lee Majors will once again try to expand the bionic population. On a two-hour special to be shown Nov. 7, he will provide solace for a 16-year-old boy named Andy who will take a hardy plunge at the ratings. If Andy, whose legs were crippled in a rockslide, can draw strong ratings that night against NBC's special showing of Gone With the Wind, he may be muscled into ABC's winter schedule with his own show. Outfitted with bionic legs, Andy can kick a football 100 yds. and climb...
...more delightful episodes in the debate occurred a while back, when the Senate overrode Ford's veto of a bill to expand school breakfast and lunch programs. Maryland's wry Charles Mathias Jr., a bona fide liberal, took the floor to support the override and also sound a warning in the form of an ode to the old brown...
When Rockefeller took over as chairman from George Champion in 1969, he inherited one big mistake-the Chase's failure to expand into foreign markets, where the Bank of America and Citibank were making major and highly profitable inroads. Rockefeller belatedly corrected that failing. But under his leadership, the Chase made other errors. Citibank set up a special data-processing operation with a team of industrial engineers to cope with the growing volume of checks and other paper. Chase, though it has computerized its operations, still has not completely solved its paperwork problems...