Word: expanded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Behind its defense and sharp shooting from Mike Bond (30 points) and Gandhi Jordan (23 pts.), Hartford jumped out to a seemingly insurmountable 18-point lead at intermission. In the first five minutes of the second half, the Crimson watched the deficit expand to a distressing...
Thanks primarily to Representative Charles Schumer and Senator John Kerry, prison treatment may finally expand. If the treatment funds authorized in the pending crime bill survive, by 1998 almost all federal prisoners and approximately half of state inmates could receive intensive treatment during their incarceration. "But then when they're out, there's nothing planned in the way of significant funds to continue their treatment," says Mitchell Rosenthal of New York's Phoenix House, "and without ample follow-through outside, much of the work inside will be wasted...
...athletes are every bit as good, and dedicated as the ones who played in the mid-'80s, but now the talent pool has been asked to expand. The greater the demand on talent, the worse the product...
Each team is forced to have the kid who can't shoot to fill a uniform. It's not that these players are bad, but they don't belong in the National Basketball Association. The league has decided to expand for obvious financial reasons. Basketball has become the most popular sport in the world, so the NBA Bigwigs, thinking like businessmen, thought they should profit from the popularity. Expand, get more cities involved. More markets, larger clientele, and bigger profits...
Zhirinovsky confidently stated in a press conference yesterday that he wants to expand the Russian empire into Finland and as far south as the Indian Ocean. He also said he is not againstthe use of nuclear weapons...