Word: expanders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bloated work forces are weighing down even potentially profitable enterprises. When the Jinbei minivan plant wanted to acquire land including a brickyard to expand its factory in the late '80s, it had to take on the brickworks' 2,000 employees as well. Nonetheless, five cities in the northeast dismissed or "resettled" more than 420,000 workers last year, and the provincial government in Shenyang has announced it will cut an additional...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: TIME's Sally Donnelly reports that the Supreme Court decision to reject doctor-assisted suicide as a constitutional right will only shift the battle to the states. "This court is very reluctant to expand the concept of right to privacy, but they're not retrenching either. That suggests that the states, particularly those with constitutions which protect the right to privacy, will still have the freedom to argue this out individually." Under the unanimous decision today, the Court upheld state laws in New York and Washington that make it a crime for doctors to administer lethal drugs...
...supplying the latest version of software, we will enhance both TV and the PC," says Roberts. To follow its own growth trajectory, Microsoft needs broadband to transmit its multimedia cornucopia of online news, entertainment and shopping. MS money now allows Comcast to accelerate construction of fiber-optic cable to expand high-speed Internet access, develop programs with Microsoft and reduce its debt...
...chill"); promising Liz, her trademark attorney, who drops by, that, yes, she would join her kick-boxing class; and celebrity name-dropping (Alicia Silverstone and Lenny Kravitz use her polish). Recently she dismissed her 61-year-old CEO to assume the title herself. "My goal is to expand into a cutting-edge, full cosmetics company," she says, adding with a sly smile, "I want to dominate...
TIME: With the Soviet Union no longer the enemy, is the threat to Europe now itself? Is that the real reason we need to keep and expand NATO...