Word: expanders
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...other export goods from developing countries. But last month the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (O.E.C.D.) reported that it was revising upward its 1994 growth estimates for Germany, the powerhouse of the European economic engine, from 0.8% annually to 1.8%. The organization now predicts the Japanese economy will expand 0.8% in 1994 -- last year it grew 0.1% -- and the European Union 1.9%, vs. a drop of 0.3% in 1993. In a welcome note of optimism, last week the ever cautious Bundesbank declared that the "recessionary tendencies in the West German economy appear to have been overcome...
Twenty years ago in Bucharest, the United Nations World Population Conference produced a wish list of things governments might do to get a grip on population: improve the status of women, expand access to health care, alleviate poverty. With the notable exception of Africa, the world has made progress in these areas: infant mortality has declined, as has the percentage of people who live in abject poverty, and the Green Revolution has improved the diet of hundreds of millions of people...
...prompted foreign banks to stop lending for fear their money would be lost, that was mostly responsible for the white minority's finally ceding power. If, as it seems, North Korea's nukes have become central to the Kims' sense of themselves, no sanctions will deter their desire to expand whatever it is that they already have. Nor will sanctions reduce the probability that they will sell their nuclear technology (and the means to use it), just as they have marketed every other weapons system they have produced. Short of an unlikely diplomatic breakthrough, or war, the West...
...past few years have been difficult ones for many women athletes at Harvard, who have complained of unequal treatment. In the wake of such complaints, the Athletic Department announced a major initiative designed to expand and improve the women's athletic program at Harvard...
7The Department of Athletics announces a major, three-year initiative to expand and improve the womens' athletic program. The move will increase the budget for women's sport by $200,000, or about 20 percent...