Word: expanded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Core" is a fake. It is a set of distribution requirements masquerading under the name of a core curriculum. If Harvard wants to its students to fulfill distribution requirements to ensure that we are "well-rounded," it should be honest with us and rename the Core. Then it should expand the course offerings to offer a large variety of small courses in each distribution area...
Hourhian said she feels that the program is now "running beautifully" and hopes to expand the soup kitchen to two nights a week by next year...
...triumph made Russia for the first time a great European power, and filled the Russians with an intoxicating sense of greatness. From now on, not only Alexander but his successors felt they had a God-given right to intervene in the Balkans, to keep attacking the Ottoman Empire, to expand anywhere they wanted in the wastelands of Central Asia...
Rurik's sons and grandsons not only united the Slavs of the Dnieper Valley but also were soon trying to expand. In 907 Prince Oleg invaded the Eastern Roman Empire with 2,000 ships, "accomplished much slaughter among the Greeks" and supposedly nailed his shield to the imperial gates of Constantinople. From this foray, the Russians brought home to their capital in Kiev an advantageous trade treaty and an even more advantageous contact with the Christian religion and sophisticated culture of Constantinople. Thus emerged the first Russian state, known as Kievan Russia...
...Although international courses are sure to expand under [Law School Dean Robert C. Clark] because international law is a fast growing field, as the world becomes more interdependent, this is one way of augmenting the in-class experience with real-life opportunities," said Martin Elling, head of the delegation. And Barbara Manning called the trip a "great opportunity to see, first-hand, how law firms there...