Word: expanded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...contract's major "improvement"--a plan to expand the October playoffs to include eight teams--will only further serve to hurt the integrity of the game. Baseball remains the only sport where the regular season, with its 162 games and rigorous travel, means something...
...make the Bible get with the program. One-third of American adults today have trouble decoding the King James Version, and 70% of teenagers in a typical week do not even bother to try, according to Barna Research Group, a religious polling firm. So religious publishers, eager to expand a $400 million Bible industry, are out peddling niche-oriented Bibles in a Babel of new interpretations and formats -- or, to paraphrase Shakespeare, quoting Scripture for their own purposes. "In a Baskin-Robbins % society, people don't want chocolate or vanilla. They want a special flavor that really suits their needs...
...part to media mogul Barry Diller. Since joining QVC as chairman six months ago, Diller has buffed the industry's reputation by luring Saks Fifth Avenue and famous designers like Diane von Furstenberg to sell goods on television. And in a move that could further help clean up and expand the business, he proposed last week a $1.2 billion merger between QVC, the nation's largest video retailer, and the No. 2 operator, troubled Home Shopping Network...
Clinton focused his agenda as he has not often done at home. Agreements to expand trade and to extend more generous aid to Russia, he told his subordinates, took precedence over everything else. He harped on the subject of employment, going so far as to call for a "jobs summit" at the meeting. Expanding trade, he insisted, was one way out of the stagnant employment that bedevils all members of the G-7 (for Group of Seven nations -- Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan...
...civil liberties advocacy organization, CLUH may be hard to fix on a political spectrum. However, I hope that our efforts to protect and expand students' rights, be they that of free speech or the right to associate, have not been overlooked in campus debates. Jol Silversmith '94 Former director, CLUH