Word: expander
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...family's sizable, 140-year-old textile business, but also is one of Italy's most active and controversial politicians. As a member of Milan's city council and the city assessor, Bassetti is a chief mover behind a massive redevelopment project that will reshape and expand Milan at a cost of $650 million over the next four years and an eventual cost of $1.5 billion...
...Italian businesses, pays 24% of the nation's taxes, accounts for one-fifth of all its wages and salaries. To relieve its inevitable growing pains, Milan hopes to annex 94 surrounding communities, redevelop its crowded city center, build a complex of subways and expressways and expand housing, health services, schools and sanitation facilities. Once Milan decided on this ambitious course, the problem was where to borrow the money-and how to convince the rest of the world that Milan was all its citizens said...
...case against the contracts is that Frondizi was in such a rush to expand oil output that he signed some sour deals and brushed aside legal niceties. His legislature never ratified the contracts, which oblige Y.P.F. to buy the oil that the foreign contractors produce. Critics also argue that Y.P.F.'s deals involved excessive prices...
...likes of Duke, Tulane, Virginia, Vanderbilt and North Carolina. Bemused by its Coke money, Emory for years neglected to cultivate other givers, and now pays full professors badly enough to get a "D" salary rating from the American Association of University Professors. Unable to raid other faculties or fully expand its plant, Emory may need $100 million in the next decade to win the rank it wants-a place among the nation's top 20 universities. To get the university moving, President Atwood probably will boost Emory's already good graduate training and research. Last week he began...
...second store in Brooklyn is hardly a moneymaker. With Ohrbach's, the Brenninkmeyers hope to acquire the retailing flair of a U.S. company that has made a name for itself by imaginative advertising and artful merchandising of low-budget high-style Paris copies. Eventually, the Brenninkmeyers hope to expand across...