Word: expanded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...compensate for the loss of sales in these areas, the store will probably expand its supply of prints, posters and books...
Sixty years later, President Clinton, in his quest to expand his insurmountable lead in the polls, seems to be willing to be all things to all people. All politicians think that they should be elected unanimously. Clinton seems to be, of late, actively pursuing that goal--and the results can be outrageous. Last week, the Clinton/Gore campaign, after an outcry from the gay and lesbian community, pulled a radio ad titled "Values" that had been targeting religious conservatives. That this group was targeted in the first place is a sign of the Democrats embrace of mainstream values after years...
...networks are battling this viewer erosion by trying to expand their news offerings--into new time periods, like prime time, as well as into cable and the new technologies. NBC has been the most aggressive in this regard, with two cable-news networks, an Internet news service in conjunction with Microsoft, and NBC Superchannel, a programming service in Europe. "We've always been in the news-gathering business 24 hours a day," says NBC News president Andrew Lack. "Now we can provide our viewers--whether on the PC or on television--this information 24 hours...
...Weeks, who runs the New York Times Co.'s 21 regional newspapers in six states, is bullish on his business and is looking to expand his stable. "The future is local, local, local, and nobody is going to out-local us," he says. Whether this local news ends up being on actual paper in the future, though, is anybody's guess. "We are the primary source of news in our markets," says Weeks. "If we have to do that with Web pages, we'll do that. If we have to do it with video feeds, we'll do that...
Grewal, who is also vice president of the Harvard Wilderness Alliance, says that environmentalism has been making a concerted effort to expand its support base to include poor urban residents, who may be endangered by toxic sites in their neighborhoods...