Word: expanded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...roughly divided among Jews, Catholics and Protestants, with about 100 Negro families. Newton's schoolchildren are usually two years ahead of national norms in reading; around 60% go on to four-year colleges. With enrollment (18,000) up 60% since 1950, the town has spent $19 million to expand a school plant that now includes one junior college, two high schools, five junior highs and 25 grade schools. Annual spending per pupil is a relatively modest...
...word, just as they [social scientists] have already seen the need of expanding their conception of behavior to include talk (and the relatively low-level generalisations expressed in it), so they must now expand it still further to include the more abstract levels of theoretical behavior, wherever these occur in societies." W.T. Jones, "The Romantic Syndrome...
...Central Intelligence Agency last week argues that the Russians are actually falling far behind. In 1962 and 1963, according to the agency's analysis, the Russian economy grew at a rate of less than 2.5% annually, while the U.S. growth rate averaged 5.5% and is expected to expand at that level in 1964 as well. Even if the Russians doubled their gross national product (1962 level: $260 billion) in the next decade, a feat that most experts consider impossible, Soviet output in 1972 would still be less than the $555 billion total logged...
...funds are available, NSF hopes to expand the program for 1965-66 to include graduate students in mathematics and the physical sciences, according to Francis G. O'Brien, associate director of the traineeship project. Eventually, students in biology and some social sciences may also be included...
...principal purveyor of power to the nation's fastest-growing state, San Francisco's Pacific Gas & Electric Co. has to expand at full speed just to keep up. Already a giant among U.S. power utilities, it ranks first in the size of the area it covers, first in revenues (1963 earnings: $113 million on $749 million sales), and second only to New York City's Con Edison in generating capacity. P.G. & E.'s growth has been so phenomenal that the company will spend a record $255 million in 1964 on new power plants and transmission facilities...