Word: expanders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some are treating Harvard's announcement as a partial victory for the cause of Latino studies. Professors and students say they believe that the new center is likely to expand from Latin America to Latinos...
...descends upon the life of her step-daughter, Isobel (Juliet Stevenson.) Isobel's sister Marion (Penelope Wilton) convinces her sister to make room for Katherine in her graphic design business, which she runs with her boyfriend, Patrick. Isobel is uneasy given Katherine's destructive personality, and her disinclination to expand the business. Finally, Marion and her husband, Tom, (Alan Howard) provide the capital to transform the business from a two-person living room operation to a bustling corporate production. The aforementioned knifing scene is the turning point, when both the business and Isobel and Patrick's relationship plunge rapidly downhill...
...Pentagon's most secret missions. But the Joint Chiefs of Staff did not want to repeat the mistake made in the Desert One fiasco when senior Pentagon officials kept too many key officers in the dark. Tuttle says he was ordered by the Chiefs to expand the circle of officers informed about this operation. On March 18, members of the congressional POW task force were briefed on the Nhommarath sightings. The result was a flood of leaks to the press. Colonel Ronald Duchin, then head of the Pentagon's news division, says he had to persuade half a dozen news...
China also wants jobs, of course, and American companies have been providing plenty of them lately. That dismays U.S. workers who have watched their employers cut jobs in cities like Wichita, Kansas, only to expand production in Xian. Shortly after Scott Paper disclosed plans in August to lay off 10,500 workers (nearly one-third of its work force), the company announced an $18 ^ million joint venture that will create 200 jobs when it begins producing facial tissue in Shanghai in 1995. At the same time, Boeing, which has dismissed 4,000 workers in Wichita over the past two years...
...April, the Border asked the license commission for permission to expand occupancy by creating a 40-person waiting area which would be both food and alcohol free. But the request was denied because it would be difficult to monitor alcohol consumption in such a crowded area, said Scali...