Word: expanders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have seen over and over and over that even if you can produce good results with small programs, when you expand to a national level, the effect often disappears," says Ronald Haskins, a top Republican staff member of the House Ways and Means Committee. "That is the case with Head Start. We still do not have evidence that Head Start produces any long-term effects...
...State Albright seems to be following. She promised "to tell it like it is on the human rights issues" when she took office last week, yet warned that the overall relationship to China was too important to be held hostage to one issue. Translation: the U.S. is anxious to expand trade with a market that bought goods made in America worth almost $12 billion in 1995. Sidney Jones of the advocacy group Human Rights Watch Asia calls this approach schizophrenic. "The report shows that the State Department knows exactly how bad the situation is," she says. "But when Albright goes...
BankBoston will expand both its facilities and services to provide customers with these benefits, Greer said...
...boom. A recent Sunday edition of the Arizona Gazette carried 46 pages of help-wanted ads with large sections devoted to health-care professionals, software engineers and telemarketers. Machine-shop operators in Colorado are hurting for skilled workers--and weeping because they can't find them fast enough to expand. Las Vegas, which already boasts more than 100,000 hotel rooms (as many as San Francisco and New York City combined), has become a construction worker's dream, with plans to add 21,000 more rooms in the next two years...
...everything makes him smile, particularly the company's attempt to expand its brand name into specialty stores. The 145 Sears HomeLife furniture stores have performed so poorly that Martinez has put plans to build more on hold. The company has had better success with the new Sears Hardware chain, and intends to expand it from 80 outlets to 560 by 2000. Martinez has tape-measured the division for more than $2 billion in sales by the end of the decade...