Word: expanded
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...Pediatrics and the American Medical Association encourage, in most cases, public donation over private banking. That's because a child has only between one in 1,000 and one in 200,000 chance of needing an infusion of his own cord blood later in life. More public contributions would expand the ethnic diversity in the donor pool, which now predominantly favors Caucasian recipients. What's more, many conditions treated today with cord-blood stem cells are most successful when the donor is not related to the recipient, says Dr. Kent Christopherson, a hematologist at Chicago's Rush University Medical Center...
...fathers to Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. Speaking at the Institute of Politics, Moses described early interpretations of the U.S. constitution designed to protect the rights of slaveowners, and outlined the way in which reformers from Abraham Lincoln to the activists of the 1960s had attempted to expand the notion of constitutional rights, a process he said was still not finished. “We should embrace the constitutional reach of ‘we,’” said Moses, a former Harvard graduate student. “We need to make good...
...HOUSING BOOM As the housing industry flourishes, bond insurers expand to guarantee riskier, more complex debt, like subprime mortgages...
...family business) and using the proceeds to swallow eight rival firms. This gave the company new reserves and more sway over prices to the domestic steel industry, just before the commodities boom really kicked off in 2003 with China's explosive growth. But instead of allowing costs to expand with growth, Agnelli reduced overhead, turning logistics, for example, into a core competency. Vale now owns numerous ports and 10,000 miles (about 16,000 km) of rail. That's critical in a country as vast as Brazil...
...same time, the Medical School was looking to expand its reach into the nascent field of global health...