Word: expanded
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...that case, the E.C. would be less likely to expand to include the nations recently liberated from communism. The developing countries of Africa, Asia and the Middle East would be largely locked out of the regional groupings, therefore deprived of the benefits of free trade and thus less likely to keep developing, either toward prosperity or democracy...
What's the rush? Last year Congress ordered speedy deployment of the 100- missile complex at Grand Forks, N. Dak., the only strategic-defense site permitted by the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty. If that agreement can be renegotiated with the Russians, congressional SDI-niks hope to expand Grand Forks into a $35 billion nationwide network of 700 interceptors. But a second leak last week could chill those plans: a draft Pentagon report now concludes that even the proposed national-defense site at Grand Forks would violate the ABM treaty. And that, says Federation of American Scientists space policy director John...
...NINO. To meteorologists, the weather phenomenon named after the Christ child is not a theory but a recognizable and recurrent climatological event. Every few years around Christmastime, a huge pool of warm seawater in the western Pacific begins to expand eastward toward Ecuador, nudging the jet streams off course and disrupting weather patterns across half the earth's surface. The El Nino that began last year and is now breaking up has been linked to record flooding in Latin America, the unseasonably warm winter in North America and the droughts in Africa...
Murphy says he hopes to expand the "Coop'sbusiness" without abandoning student service. Buthe's not sure about the specifics...
...fact, HRAAA is still very much alive, and is planning to expand its scope of action in the coming year, according to Jan L. Handke, the group's current executive director...