Word: expanded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...crisis. The stage was set in the '50s, when, awash in the ever rising tsunami of federal spending triggered by Sputnik's assault on the nation's pride, Penn and its peers went on a building-and-hiring binge. A surge of Great Society financial-aid money helped them expand even further. New faculty could be supported with minimal strain because the salaries were largely covered by federal grants. From 1960 to 1970, operating expenditures at Penn quadrupled, a rate of increase 10 times that of inflation. More buildings were constructed, including three high-rise dormitories, and more faculty...
...donation will fund "operations to expand our capacity to attract more people and print more papers," said Fred Ellis, manager of Spare Change's Mass. Ave. office...
...Everyone agrees it's too small. But everyone agrees that this is just a first step," she said. "There aren't that many places that can accommodate a TV viewing area... That's not to say this idea won't expand. There may be more couches coming...
...always change and expand accordingly," Windom said...
...breath of life for "blue babies." Some NEWBORNS have trouble breathing because blood vessels in their lungs don't expand properly. But now doctors find that inhaling nitric oxide can help. In half the infants studied, tiny quantities of the gas restored breathing within minutes--with no harmful side effects...