Word: expanding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan's tax cuts will expand consumption, but large government deficits will offset any major economic expansion, said MIT economist Franco Modigliani...
TIME performed an essential public service with its article about the well-organized effort in Congress to weaken the standards of the Clean Air Act [March 1]. As the principal author of the law, I am delighted that interest in this issue is increasing. If anything, we need to expand the statute to cover new threats to our health and our environment-acid rain and airborne toxic pollutants...
...important, the Corporation should revamp its selection process, preferably in time to help fill Putnam's spot. Faculty, alumni, and students all deserve to be able to vote to help appoint the Corporation members whose decisions often have such impact on them. At the same time, the Corporation should expand its size to make it more akin to the boards of other Ivy schools--a move that would make diversity more immediately attainable and that would make the board less of a coterie. Regular elections for seats with limited terms would also increase the body's responsiveness to a changing...
...FIND myself returning to the more liberal proposals I favored before encountering Crime in Penn Station. Effective education at an early age might expand the opportunities of the poor. Stepped-up support for the basic desires of the needy--an about-face from Reaganomics--could muffle the desperation that kindles crime. Job creation and real incentives for job training would rechannel the self-interest that makes men muggers. And a greater focus on rehabilitation--not on maintaining congested prisons whose squalor breeds frustration and recidivism--might leave some hope for those who originally go astray...
...basically responsible for nothing more arcane than seeing to it that money and credit remain plentiful enough to keep the economy expanding without causing runaway inflation. Although there are many ways of measuring money M1, M2, M-3 - the bank monitors its success by focusing on M1, which includes the amount of currency in circulation at a given time as well as deposits in all kinds of checking accounts. Those are the funds most readily avail able for actual spending. Other monetary measurements, including M-2 and M3, expand the definition to embrace additional kinds of deposits like savings accounts...