Word: expanders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...youth she was an aristocommunist who wore jeans one day and couture the next as she passed out leaflets on street corners and talked the night away in political cafes. All that changed when she was 28 and inherited the family firm. The itch to design and expand into women's clothing began almost at once. She met her husband when she stopped by his leather-goods display at a trade show and pointed out what was wrong with his merchandise. They now have two mischievous little sons ages...
...casinos. In Missouri, a riverboat-gambling proposal was sunk, as was an effort to win floating casinos for Indiana. And in the year's most colorful campaign, "gonzo" journalist Hunter Thompson persuaded voters in Aspen, Colorado, to unite against "the greed heads" and the "absentee-landlord scum" seeking to expand the town's airport to accommodate big jets...
Secretary Lamelle D. Rawlins '99 said she hopes Harvard Yale Spirit Week will expand in future years with more publicity and participation...
Because of their devoted audience, and the fact that religious novels have a longer shelf life than secular ones, publishers plan to expand and diversify. The next wave is likely to be adventures and spy thrillers aimed at a big untapped market: men. There is plenty of peril left in the Northwest to provide fodder for those adventure novels. But espionage depends on deception, double dealing and lying. It's hard to see how God will work his way without ruining the plot...
Republicans today will seek to expand on their 1994 victories, when they captured control of the U.S. Congress and a majority of governorships and state legislatures...