Word: expanded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Much of Western Europe has been seized by a fervor to expand higher education and to reform it along U.S. lines-interdisciplinary cooperation, more full professors, rotating departmental command. Italy's current five-year plan calls for a reorganization of universities, now beset with frequent strikes by students and teaching assistants. Many Europeans hope to emulate what a Common Market Eurocrat calls "the magic American mobility between campus, government and industry...
...liberals' fears by spelling out unambiguously plans for more civil rights and antipoverty legislation, and by giving Congress notice of his intention to achieve progress at home despite the expenses of war. But the question or Presidential will remained unanswered: can Johnson provide the leadership necessary to pr4eserve and expand the Great Society in the politically lean years as well as the fat ones...
...being slow in using another of its regulatory tools - the money supply - and later on for overusing it. Despite their waning hopes that Johnson would raise taxes, the Fed's governors kept rapidly increasing the supply of money during the first part of 1966. Businessmen, eager to expand their overworked plants, hired more employees and built inventories, went on a borrowing spree and were willing to pay a premium price for money. Loans to business - which usually flatten out during the first half - actually jumped by $7.5 billion, or almost...
When the students decided to expand coverage to Boston colleges, volunteers were added to the staff...
...eventually to manufacture steel, an ambitious $600 million enterprise. The two new projects were only the latest in a spate of similar announcements. Phil lips Petroleum plans to pump in some $60 million, starting with a new fertilizer plant for which ground has already been broken. Union Carbide will expand its operations to the tune of $62,300,000. International Harvester has not only reopened; it is also spending $30 million to expand its truck line and build its first tractors in the country...