Word: expanded
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...Gordon noted, it’s a “crapshoot” whether or not the Faculty will actually expand again at the close of this academic year...
With the endowment rocketing through the roof to an unimaginable $25.9 billion, the University can surely afford it better than these students can. And in the event the College ever decides to expand the student body, those plans should include an ambitious target for expanding the proportion of lower-income students to a level that actually reflects their presence in our society...
...Kandahar, and Captain Jeremy Turner of the U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne Division is explaining why he prefers Afghanistan to Iraq. "The Iraqis will plant explosives and run away," he says. "But the Afghans will go toe-to-toe with you." Just as Turner, 29, starts to expand on the point, a huge explosion interrupts him. One of the humvees in his 16-vehicle convoy has been hit by a roadside bomb and explodes in a flaming whoosh. Turner and his men have driven straight into a Taliban ambush...
...country on the edge. There are some signs of progress: 50% of voters braved threats of insurgent attacks last month to vote in the first national parliamentary elections since 1969. The government of President Hamid Karzai has an army of more than 20,000 and has begun to expand its authority beyond Kabul, the capital. But much of the country is still controlled by the warlords who filled the vacuum created by the Taliban's demise. And while the Taliban commands little political support, its fighters remain tenacious: the Taliban has launched more attacks on U.S. and Afghan forces...
...club will also expand its local community outreach by contributing to two more programs this year...