Word: expanding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...troubles Africa's black leaders. Says Joaquim Chissano, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mozambique: "Reagan's policy is extremely dangerous for peace in Africa and peace in the world." Yet the hefty do nation to Zimbabwe during a time of austerity seems to signal a willingness to expand U.S. commitments in black Africa. The Salisbury aid conference was widely seen as a test of Western willingness to support Mugabe's experiment in nonracial democracy. It was also a chance for the U.S. to steal a march on Moscow in the Third World. Said one Western diplomat...
...store, supposedly a cooperative chartered to serve students at Harvard and MIT, expand and build a branch in downtown Boston, a location which Coop managers can hardly claim serves student interests...
...solid waste converstion has come up against both financial and environmental obstacles in the current effort to innovate and expand into a viable, large-scale industry. The large plant size needed for efficient production creates a significant problem for cities attempting to find a renewable outlet for their garbage: experts have estimated that only 85 metropolitan areas can generate enough waste to make a garbage-power plant feasible...
...promoting exports. Foreign businessmen faced high tariffs and found it difficult to market their goods through the country's very complicated distribution system. "Buy Japanese" was a strong, if unspoken, practice. American businessmen also accused the Japanese of "dumping," or selling their products at a loss just to expand their market shares. In 1979 the U.S. Treasury found that Japanese companies were, in fact, dumping color television sets. But the Japanese, under heavy pressure from the U.S., have generally ceased such practices, and reduced their tariffs and import quotas...
...fetch up at "a white lakeside hotel" and make love incessantly and imaginatively. Meanwhile, other guests drown when a pleasure boat on the lake goes down in a sudden high wind; a wing of the hotel burns to the ground, killing many others. The poem is followed by an expanded prose version of the same fantasy. This time the woman's lover is Freud's son; the disasters expand to include a landslide and a cable car that plunges to earth. New guests regularly replace the dead at the white hotel. The woman's breasts flow with...