Word: expanded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...make the deficit look smaller," says Tim Neale, spokesman for the Air Transport Association. Representative William Jefferson, a Louisiana Democrat, was stunned earlier this year when FAA Administrator David Hinson and Transportation Secretary Federico Pena told him the trust fund was going broke. Jefferson was looking for money to expand the New Orleans airport. "The bottom line is that there isn't a fund for forward-looking capital projects to provide safety and security equipment for our airports," Jefferson told Time. Soon there may be no fund at all. Congressional squabbling has kept the ticket tax from being reimposed. Unless...
Presidential candidate Bob Dole has perfected the technique for turning a one-day story into a one-week gaffe. Earlier in the week he said he had turned down an invitation to speak to the N.A.A.C.P. because of a scheduling conflict. Then he decided to expand his refusal, saying that the head of the organization was "trying to set me up." At that point, General Colin Powell, whom Dole is urging to take a bigger role in his campaign, could no longer ignore the incident and said, "It would have been useful for him to present his views." Dole called...
College administrators are considering a plan that would expand the size of future first-year classes and reduce the number of transfer students admitted to Harvard, Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 confirmed yesterday...
...Tyrone", for one claustrophobic day in their Connecticut summer house, circa 1912. Though the play presents an equally hopeless portrait of each beleaguered Tyrone, it is the figure of Jamie, especially as played by Bill Camp in the ART's new production, around whom the plays' energies and tensions expand and contract...
...everyone from the U.S. Defense Department to a Swedish online service, prefers to distinguish between "visionaries" like Negroponte--"people who have a vision of what the future should be and are trying to make it happen"--and workaday "forecasters" like himself. "My job is to help our clients expand their perceived range of possibilities," Saffo says. Of course, in that capacity, he acknowledges, "you can affect outcomes...