Word: expanding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ruling clergy's tendency to use human-wave attacks to achieve quick victories. These commanders believe that Iran should try to wear down the enemy more slowly without wasting men and resources. Through further attacks, they reason, they could weaken the Iraqis' morale and gradually expand the size of the Basra front, which at present is only ten miles wide. The Ayatullah reportedly rejects such talk out of hand. Complains a former military official in Tehran: "Khomeini and his aides think only of one thing, the protection of their regime at any cost...
Despite a wrenching retrenchment, the international economy appears to be no closer to a robust recovery than when the agony began. Indeed, for many countries the problems are intensifying, and governments that have tried to expand their economies while others were battling inflation are rethinking their policies. Rocked by a falling currency, France slapped a four-month wage and price freeze on its economy and devalued the franc by 10%. Beset by near record interest rates and high unemployment, Canada unveiled an austere budget that would limit salary increases for its federal workers to 6%, or about half the rate...
When the remake is as enchanting as E.T., no one can complain. But a prodigiously gifted film maker like Spielberg might hold even his youthful fans if he were to expand his range and make other kinds of movies-as Lucas and John Carpenter and Brian De Palma might. The stray adventurous mogul might be persuaded to finance their ventures into the adult world. And the baby-boom audience, just now approaching early middle age, might follow them. All this could happen tomorrow, and nobody could guarantee that the movie industry would break another box-office record. But the eager...
...view of his career is perhaps less radical than earlier ones. Here was a provincial man, born Domenikos Theotokopoulos in 1541 in Crete, who by the age of 27 had attained a modest success as an icon painter in the Byzantine manner. He then set out for Venice to expand his painting skills. After only two years, when he had absorbed all the schooling in color that Titian and Tintoretto could give him, he moved on to Rome, where he became part of the circle of intellectuals who revolved around Fulvio Orsini, librarian to Cardinal Alessandro Farnese. During the next...
...absolutely delighted," Hubel said yesterday, adding that the promotion" makes me a bit more independent" He said that while he does not intend to expand his work beyond neurobiology, he may now offer a course to graduate students or to advanced undergraduates...