Word: expanders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Swanger said that the program--if it is chosen--may use the award money either to establish a scholarship fund or to expand the existing program to include eleven and twelve-year-olds. Current participants must be at least thirteen years...
Since the amount of land available for academic and non-academic activities in Cambridge is limited, one use cannot expand without diminishing the space available for the other. It is not more anti-Harvard to suggest that the current balance between the two is about right, than it is anti-human to suggest that the scale of human activities must be limited to protect the environment on which all life depends. John Pitkin Chair Mid-Cambridge Neighborhood Association
...certain less glamorous market niches are flourishing: witness the success of highly targeted publications like Model Railroader and Golf Illustrated. Service and life-style magazines, meanwhile, , are attracting some keenly interested, well-financed investors. American Express recently acquired D (for Dallas) and Atlanta as part of a plan to expand into 20 city markets. And on June 1 Time Inc. Magazines paid approximately $215 million for the parent company of Sunset magazine, a West Coast life-style publication. Says Ryder: "The next twelve to 18 months represent one of the great buying opportunities of all time...
...other hand, Wilson does want to meet the needs of female college students, she should direct her energy and funds towards undergraduate life and scale back efforts to expand research facilities...
Even medium-size companies can suddenly find themselves cut off from vital funds. Arthur Pappathanasi ran into a credit squeeze in January when he decided to expand West Lynn Creamery, a $200 million-a-year dairy business near Boston that his family has run for more than a half-century. His local bank, which had promised to add $3 million to the firm's $15 million line of credit, suddenly backed out and warned him that he would soon lose access to the original $15 million. That sent Pappathanasi on a frantic dash for cash that ended when he found...