Word: expanded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...When coronary arteries are clogged, smaller arteries expand to take over some of the blood flow. A new drug, still unnamed, has been shown to enhance the process in dogs. If it works in humans, it could be a cheaper, safer alternative to standard bypass surgery or balloon angioplasty...
Lame duck Defense Secretary Les Aspin overruled the Army and Marine Corps to approve a policy that will expand the presence of women in ground-combat forces. Women still won't engage in fighting, but Aspin has ordered that they be allowed to take dangerous support jobs that have been closed to them. The two services have until May 1 to provide a list of what these jobs will...
...great believer that technology has to go through two waves," he declares. "The first wave can dehumanize, but the second wave, if the response and feedback mechanisms are in place, can be to superhumanize. So rather than contain and isolate and alienate us, technology can also expand and challenge and open us. And that's empowering...
...circus technician in Czechoslovakia and as a dance-bar proprietor in Vienna. Following a night's rest in Stoilov's hometown of Sandanska, the Russian politician traveled to the village of Melnik to accept a painting from a local artist who shares Zhirinovsky's conviction that Bulgaria should expand its territory by annexing the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia. To make sure the message got across, he restated this theory for a Sofia newspaper...
Normally, NATO gatherings put people to sleep. This one is different. In the wake of communism's collapse, the question on the table for the first time is whether to expand eastward to embrace those former Soviet satellites finally in a position to join the free world's premier defense alliance. "It would be a historic sin to miss this opportunity to bind in the East Europeans," says NATO Secretary-General Manfred Worner. But the West, led by the U.S., is about to commit that very sin. The 16 nations that already enjoy NATO's protection are on the verge...