Word: expanded
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Last night, the Undergraduate Council passed a fine resolution urging the University to expand its non-discrimination clause to include transgendered individuals. Without passing judgment on the ethics of individuals who identify themselves as a sex different from that which they were born, and without providing an intellectual discourse on the social construction of gender (to whatever degree that exists), we feel that it is proper for Harvard to recognize the equal rights of the transgendered within the context of University policy...
...groups chose this year's theme of tensions between profit and Poverty in order to expand on last year's conference, "Mobilizing Finance for Development...
When Bollenbach fled the executive loony bin at Disney for Hilton last year, he quickly developed a new strategy for the well-known but mediocre company. In lodging, he wanted to expand Hilton's traditional presence in the full-service-hotel sector in the U.S. and abroad. In gaming, he saw Hilton as a buyer in an industry that was consolidating. To finance acquisitions, he would take advantage of low interest rates and Hilton's strong balance sheet...
...have to balance the demands of so many desirable things: small-group instruction, faculty-led seminars, thesis supervision and research opportunities and expand the Core and ensure that all the basic departmental courses are covered," Knowles writes. "We shall try harder to guarantee a balanced menu...
...relief stems from a tax credit and deduction for college. To offset those give-aways, the President wants to raise taxes by $76 billion, hitting multinational corporations, closing loopholes and extending existing taxes like the airline ticket tax. Maneuvering room is limited in a budget that tries to expand benefits while cutting spending. One of the biggest obligations in the budget is off-limits: 1998?s $250 billion interest payments on the nation?s $5.3 trillion debt. That's one out of seven dollars the government spends, more than the entire defense budget. Furthering hamstringing creative budgeting, more than half...