Word: expanding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although Dukakis says he believes King is "very vulnerable" on the issue of taxes, he says he would like to expand the primarily one-track current debate beyond the tax issue. "You can't debate taxes with out debating the services it pays for," he says, explaining why he has yet to agree to a formal public debate with King, who wants to limit the first round to taxes...
...competitive environment: keeping workers satisfied in order to reduce job hopping, arid maintaining the small-company entrepreneurial spirit as firms grow larger. Experienced technicians are in short supply and can easily win large salary increases and hefty bonuses by changing employers. Executives are also fearful that as their firms expand, they will lose the ability to respond quickly to changing market conditions and new technology...
...result is that some Silicon Valley companies are looking around the U.S. when they want room to expand. Many states, in search of industries that are clean, fast-growing and pay good wages and fringe benefits to skilled workers, would like to attract such companies. North Carolina is spending more than $24 million to build a microelectronics center near Durham in what is called the Research Triangle...
...they were. Losses were high at first-$29 million during the first 26 months-because fuel prices jumped after the 1973 Arab oil embargo. After that, the fortunes of Federal Express rose sharply. By the mid-1970s, revenues were running at 50% above projections. Smith now has plans to expand his overnight service to Europe...
...Skytrain was so popular and profitable that in the past two years Laker, who owns 90% of the airline, borrowed $359 million to expand his fleet of DC-10s and Airbus A300s with the intention of adding new services between European and Asian capitals. Then trouble struck. Fuel prices surged, recession in the U.S. and Europe cut into passenger traffic, and the rise of the dollar's value against the pound upset Laker's balance sheet. Much of his revenue was in pounds, but he had to make debt payments in dollars...