Word: expanding
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...orbiting eye should also help establish the true size of our Milky Way Galaxy and discover distant galaxies and quasars. By identifying unknown sources of energy and adding data on the universe's mass, IRAS may help settle the grandest question of all: whether the universe will expand indefinitely or collapse upon itself under the remorseless tug of its own gravity...
However, Taylor said, he is trying to expand it by soliciting about 50 new tutorial proposals from graduate students, and preregistering students. Taylor added he has already received 30 new proposals...
...second-largest employer, decided to reduce production drastically, scuttling 1,500 jobs over the next year. But the loss was a "cloud with a silver lining of great depth," insists Mayor Winfield Moses, who helped launch a spirited campaign to diversify the city's economy, save and expand existing businesses and lure new industry. Moses created the city's first economic development department. Taking advantage of publicity about the flood, the department has begun inviting companies to locate in "the city that saved itself." Bids are soon to be let on a $24 million convention center. The local...
...more aware, and fearful, of the health consequences of smoking. Meanwhile, government price supports for tobacco created excess tobacco stockpiles to aggravate the problem. In presumably smoke-filled rooms, executives of major U.S. tobacco companies--like Philip Morris and U.S. Tobacco--decided the answer to the problem was to expand markets and foist American tobacco on the rest of the world...
Woolworth management could reveal its thinking soon. The company shut the last of its 336 Woolco outlets last weekend, and is finally rid of a substantial profit drain. The slimmed-down firm must now decide whether it intends to expand in new ways or remain at the same old stand...