Word: expanding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although this year's project is for the summer only, the program's founders says they hope to expand it into a full-year program beginning...
...Gorbachev can maintain his course, the next few years hold further promise. He has pledged to increase child allowances for low-income families and extend preschool child care. Plans to expand part-time employment options are particularly appealing to working women, most of whom want to hold on to their jobs but not full time. The Soviet Women's Committee, which submits to the government proposals on legislation affecting females, is seeking to increase the number of day-care centers (currently there are 3 million children without places) and build greater flexibility into work schedules. Some factories have begun...
...glint in his hazel eyes downright sexy. But it is also true that in preparing for Big, one scene of which displays all but a few centimeters of Hanks' pelt, he had to work out for weeks at a Manhattan gym, huffing and puffing to reduce that upholstered posterior, expand that narrow chest and flatten that soft stomach. Even so, he will not give Arnold Schwarzenegger any competition. In fact he found himself gasping at the end of a tough scene in which he and Robert Loggia dance a duet on giant piano keys embedded in the floor...
Ultimately, the question about drugs may prove to be a painful one: should we allow drug usage to expand through decriminalization or allow uzi-toting gang members to rule our cities...
...part, the Soviet Union moved boldly to expand joint ventures with the West in 1987. For the first time in more than half a century, Western companies are now permitted to own up to 49% of a Soviet enterprise. Foreign corporations have set up more than 35 such ventures...