Word: expanded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...particularly true in the area of foreign trade, as documented by the Washington Post a week ago. For example, Reagan has ordered an investigation into the unfair trade practices of South Korea. That country will pay former Reagan Aide Deaver $1.2 million over three years to "protect, manage and expand trade and economic interests" of the nation's industry. Deaver refuses to say exactly what he will do to earn his fee, but he has hired Doral Cooper, a former deputy trade representative in the Reagan Administration, as a lobbyist for his firm. Japanese semiconductor and machine-tool firms...
...living standards that exceeded those of any capitalist country. Instead of placebos, Gorbachev's 15-year plan sets targets: industrial output and national income will double by the end of the century, and labor productivity must grow by 130%. To meet those goals, the economy is supposed to expand at a 4.7% annual rate, about twice the pace of the past decade...
Gregory Nagy, chairman of the committee on Folklore and Mythology, is intertested in "quality, not quantity" in concentrators. He is satisfied to have relatively few concentrators in Folklore and Mythology who are dedicated to the field. "We don't want to expand for expansion's sake," he says. "The kind of undergraduate concentrators we are looking for are very special people. We're ready to discourage people...
...clogged carburetor. America's output grew only 2.3%, compared with a full-throttle 6.6% in 1984. But TIME's Board of Economists, * which met last week in Manhattan, predicts that the country will rev its engine again this year. The group believes that the gross national product will expand by about 3.3% during 1986, a brisk if not blistering pace...
...courses are getting larger and we haven't got many large rooms. I suspect we'll see more of this if the Core continues to expand," Law said...