Word: expander
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brilliant economist, has eliminated $200 million a year worth of subsidies for wheat, oil and newsprint, has raised taxes and tightened collections. One of his first moves was to end the 75% to 100% salary increases of the Goulart days; he set up credit bureaus to expand farm production and lower food prices. To encourage more investment, the government is also liberalizing profit-remittance laws. This month the Brazilian Congress finally set aside $188 million to purchase the assets of American & Foreign Power Co., part of which were expropriated under Goulart...
Dean Griswold added that law teachers and libraries should expand their approach, so as to include an understanding of legal systems and problems of the entire world...
...women walk three steps behind their husbands. But the south now boasts Italy's biggest steel mill, its biggest oil refinery and its biggest petrochemical plant. Naples, now Italy's second biggest seaport (after Genoa), has become so thoroughly industrialized that there is little more room to expand, and Caserta to the north has grown into a mighty concentration of more than 100 plants. The city of Latina, just below Rome, has risen out of a drained marsh to become a bustling center of steel processing, pharmaceuticals and cinema studios. The discovery of methane gas reserves has brought...
...Department has made great efforts to expand the tutorial program to take care of the new students. Perkins said, but has been unable to find enough qualified tutors. As it is, he added, every tutor is carrying a little too much...
...measure, which passed the House by a voice vote Wednesday, also orders the Defense Department to expand the Junior ROTC program for the nation's high schools...