Word: expanding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...centering on the Seventh Fleet, are in a complementary relationship through our [bilateral] security treaty. The treaty itself contains language about maintaining peace and stability in the Far East. In this sense, one could say that as Japan buttresses its own defense capability, it will allow the U.S. to expand its scope or sphere of exercise or operation...
...used purely to serve power, as in government. Officials, administrators, bureaucrats and legislators can come to enjoy the capacity to hide not only legitimate sensitive material but incompetence, wrong judgments and ethical transgressions. It is no wonder that in democracies as well as in tyrannies, government tends to expand its capacity to hoard information. The U.S., to be sure, took steps to check and curtail this federal capacity in the wake of the excesses surrounding the Viet Nam War, the Watergate scandals and some mischief credited to the CIA and FBI in recent decades. The Government has nonetheless already accumulated...
...better machine tools from Japan and other countries. Since machine tools are essential to a growing U.S. economy and to its defense, the toolmakers argue, import restrictions must be imposed so that the domestic industry can survive and supply other U.S. manufacturers with the equipment to modernize and expand...
...disruptive once the economy begins to recover. That is because the borrowings needed to cover them would tend to "crowd out" private corporations from the nation's credit markets, forcing interest rates to levels that would either choke off growth altogether or else compel the Federal Reserve to expand the money supply so rapidly as to rekindle inflation...
...Warner Amex Satellite Entertainment Co.). Basically FM with pictures, MTV (Music Television) is a 24-hour cable service whose imaginative videotapes illustrating rock recordings expand TV's generally unadventurous visual vocabulary...