Word: expanding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trying to counteract the health system's bias towards institutional care. President Bush recently proposed increasing Medicaid coverage to 130 percent of the poverty line for pregnant women and infants. And Representative Mickey Leland (D-Tx.) and Senator Bill Bradley (D-N.J.) have introduced legislation which would expand this ceiling to 185% of the poverty line...
...revival has two motives. One is that the tiny batteries needed to power quartz watches are not widely available in Third World nations, where the Swiss want to expand exports. The other is competition from an unlikely source: the Soviet Union. Clunky Soviet watches -- often made with Swiss tools bought a decade ago -- are now the rage in Europe...
...measure comes amid quickening competition in the cable industry as firms battle harder than ever to expand their market share. Last week Home Box Office, a Time Inc. company that operates the largest pay movie network, said it will launch a 24-hour comedy channel this fall as its first basic cable service. Two days later, MTV Networks, a sister of Showtime, the second largest pay movie channel, announced plans for similar comedy programming early next year...
Communist Party chief Zhao Ziyang sent a message to the students early Wednesday promising the government would "work out concrete measures to enhance democracy and law, oppose corruption, build an honest and clean government and expand openness," the official news agency Xinhua reported...
...solution, Skinner believes, is to build new airports and expand existing ones so that they have room for more carriers. Next week voters in Denver will decide whether to fund the initial $2.3 billion for a new airport. It is the only major airport on U.S. drawing boards at the moment and, if approved, would be the country's first new one since Dallas-Fort Worth was completed...