Word: expander
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spite of Britain's efforts, the Russian influence is increasing. The Soviets have broadened their technical assistance and trade programs, have announced plans to erect a $120 million steel mill and, if Gowon is agreeable, intend to expand their embassy staff and open consulates in other Nigerian towns to put them in closer contact with labor and student groups. Meanwhile, Nigeria's British backers have been acutely embarrassed by Nigerian air attacks on undefended Biafran towns and hospitals. Britons who have protested bombing of civilians in Viet Nam now find their own nation indirectly supporting similar action...
...promotion for merit, percussive sublimation has the added benefit of justifying the executive who promoted the man to his level of incompetence in the first place. Both this principle and the lateral arabesque point up an inadequacy in C. Northcote Parkinson's well-known law. Work not only expands to fit the time allotted but, says Author Peter, "it can expand far beyond that...
Demand for money is likely to remain very high indeed. For one thing, businessmen expect to spend some $73 billion, 14% more than last year, to expand their factories during 1969. "I am frankly disturbed by this evidence of how the collective decisions of investors may help to keep inflation growing," says Treasury Secretary David Kennedy. Because of the "multiplier effect" of capital outlays, each dollar of such investment adds about $2.50 to the total economy. The phenomenon worries Washington for two reasons: 1) it has an immediate inflationary effect, and 2) it could lead to industrial overcapacity followed...
...could expand Sentinel massively to protect major cities against all-out attack, which he dismissed because such protection is virtually impossible anyway...
...Morning-side Park while the real patrons of the city are quietly pushed out of the neighborhood as undesirables. On the Heights Columbia wanted room for "academic neutrality." Military solicitors hawked on campus under open recruitment. Ties with the Institute for Defense Analysis were muted, and Columbia continued to expand into the neighborhood, smiling business-will-be-business to the tenants forced to leave. It all blew apart last April...