Word: expanding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...global interdependence, would reduce the likelihood of international conflict. The world's trading partners formed GATT so that they could meet at occasional conferences to make mutual commitments to tariff reductions. Nations agreed to lower their trade barriers and to accept increased imports in exchange for the opportunity to expand exports...
Officials, fearing that the act may curtail scientific research, which often produces such waste, will try to clarify language in the act exempting bio-medical work and expand the exemptions to other scientific research...
...Australia-Japan Research Center at the Australian National University, maintained that with a current inflation rate of only 1.7%, Japan is in a uniquely strong position to adopt a stimulative policy. Said he: "Japan can be seen as a kind of excessively cautious giant at this time, hesitating to expand its economy for fear of rekindling inflation...
...simulated performance clips tend to be dull and repetitive: lip syncs sink clips. But the best videos enhance the mood of a song and expand TV's generally unadventurous visual vocabulary. Nightmarish images from Billy Joel's subconscious accompany his shouts in the song Pressure; Stevie Nicks floats through a moving Magritte painting in Fleetwood Mac's Gypsy...
...dangerous potential of the NSA is obvious from incidents like the Jabara case. Congress should open an investigation of the NSA and its operations, especially the secret warrant process. If our government plans to expand its ability to keep track of its own citizens, the matter should at least be brought out into the open...