Word: expanded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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CAST has cleverly designed this exhibit to expand on or dispel much of the common knowledge and stereotypes assigned to the Chinese country and people. Acupuncture is explained and portrayed in the medical context in which it originated, rather than in the witch-doctor reputation it has outside China. A display featuring the artistry and dress of the Miso tribe, a minority group living in southwest China, reveals to visitors that contrary to popular belief, the Chinese are not one uniform race...
Still, experts wonder how long no-frills operators can enjoy such a smooth journey. As new companies enter the market and established chains expand, there is the growing risk of a glut. "Profit potential now is high, but success breeds excess," says Daniel Daniele, an analyst at Laventhol & Horwath, an accounting firm specializing in the lodging industry. Daniele predicts an industry shake-out in the next two to five years, but that is a distant prospect. This summer travelers tooling down interstate highways are sure to find plenty of bargain motels...
...dealers, sent to the U.S. as operatives in the drug trade, work out of South Florida and up the East Coast. Thus far they have limited themselves to what they know best, coke, but officials fear that with their capital, highly developed organization and icy ferocity, they could easily expand their activities...
...month, Park said, he planned to expand his business interests with a one-hour photograph-processing establishment near the billiard hall. He had just purchased a $41,000 French-made processing machine. His only regret, he said, was that he had to make a 20% down payment; if he had been in the U.S. longer, he could have qualified for the financing with only 10% down. These little businesses, Park explained, were just stepping-stones toward getting into high-tech research -- analytical chemistry, immunology, protein chemistry, cell biology, molecular biology -- with Korean scientists as partners...
...arrivals are prodigious savers. Since their goals are to expand their businesses and provide their children with the education they will need to move up in U.S. society, the new entrepreneurs tend to live frugally. Instead of spending their earnings on flashy cars and other items, the immigrants use their income to invest in the future...