Word: expanded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Along with all its last-minute lapses, the 89th last week managed to come up with final votes on only a few other major measures-notably a $4.1 billion public-works measure and a $186 million bill to expand official efforts to combat air pollution. Preliminary floor action was taken on several other significant bills, but in every case, final resolution was left until this week-which is expected to be the 89th's last...
Down the Middle. The Post's impulse to expand shows no sign of slackening. By 1970 the paper will move into a $25 million plant that will double its present cramped space. After four years of operation, the supplementary news service has not yet shown a profit, but it has been picking up clients at the rate of two a week for the past six months. It now has 170 subscribers and is catching up with the New York Times news service, which has almost 200. Still in the market for new acquisitions after purchasing Newsweek...
...court has thrown open its judicial windows to practically every ill and issue of U.S. life. In the face of what it regards as legislative inaction, the "Warren court" has desegregated schools, revolutionized criminal justice, rewritten the U.S. political system by plunging into the thicket of legislative reapportionment. To expand the long reach of the Constitution, it has imposed almost all of the Bill of Rights on the states as well as the Federal Government for the first time in U.S. history...
...Institute's stake in the land to its west is significant. It probably will expand there and has been encouraging scientific and engineering firms to move into the area. But these goals, though disrupted by an eight-lane highway, are still not entirely thwarted. An M.I.T. that encourages a well-designed depressed highway through the City could do a great deal to ease the Inner Belt's impact on Cambridge, and minimize the damage to the Institute's own plans as well...
...Brookline-Elm. The first of these, the "railroad route," runs right along the outer edge of the M.I.T. campus and would have destroyed a number of laboratories; the second, is the Portland-Albany route, is several blocks beyond the campus, but within the area where the university may someday expand...