Word: expanders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This year, however, many thought Reeves was seeking to expand his powers beyond the scope appropriate for a city whose charter calls for a strong city manager and weak elected officials...
...University will invest about $125 million over the next five years to expand its computer technology and more comprehensively incorporate the Internet into the curriculum, according to Rudenstine...
With their core-investor market aging rapidly, firms such as Merrill Lynch and Smith Barney know they have to expand into online trading to find new blood. And fast. The typical client at a full-service brokerage is 63 years old. Online investors are mostly affluent, computer-savvy males whose average age is 41. The big brokerages claim they aren't worried about the upstarts and like to point out that their traditional business is still growing. But the movement to the Internet has tremendous momentum, and Wall Street knows better than to swim against the tide...
...hard line policies, while allaying some Israeli worries, cause concern among Palestinians, other Arab nations and especially Washington, where President Clinton was counting on a Peres victory to continue the process towards Middle East peace. Netanyahu has pledged to take a much tougher line against Yasser Arafat, to expand Jewish settlements in the West bank ant to renege on the promise to withdraw Israeli troops from Hebron. Adding to the fear that peace with Palestinians is in serious jeopardy, Ariel Sharon, a senior Likud official said on Israeli radio: "Our government cannot accept the Oslo accord exactly...
...Although the event will likely draw many thousands of people to the capital, the CDF's agenda in part, to save and expand programs like Head Start is foundering on Capitol Hill. And despite the fact that Hillary Clinton is a past CDF chairman and children's advocate, the organizers have also stopped counting on support from a mercurial White House. When President Clinton voiced his support last year for a Senate bill that would transform federal welfare spending into a system of smaller, block grants to the states which would eliminate the safety net of protections for children...