Word: expanding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Friday, U.S. officials disclosed in Washington that the Reagan administration was planning to expand the U.S. naval role in the gulf by giving American commaders the right to intervene in Iranian attacks on non-U.S. flag vessels...
...wanted to expand the uses of the library and the meaning of letters in the house," Foley said, adding that the program has already attracted Michael Walsh, music critic for Time magazine and New York novelist James Atlas. She said she hopes to "have more fiction writers in the fall, mostly writers from the Boston area...
Guangdong, burdened with fewer state-run plants than other regions to begin with, has proved especially congenial to the entrepreneurial spirit. In Beijiao, about 15 miles south of Guangzhou, Ou Jiangquan, 49, general manager of the Yu Hua Industrial Co., has seen his firm expand from a bottle-cap producer to a manufacturer of electric fans and microwave ovens for export. "It's not easy for state-run enterprises to compete against us," says Ou. "They have to carry out reforms, or they will have...
...Hunan officials are doing their best to downplay the tensions created by growing inequality with their neighbors. Says Vice Governor Yang: "The old and the new systems coexist." To avoid friction between the provinces, says a Western diplomatic analyst in China, Beijing must "either roll back the reforms or expand the experiment to the rest of the country as quickly as possible." As Premier Li pointed out at the NPC, however, the government is not likely to take either course at this time. While one China presses on, the other must wait its turn...
...they tend to skim the cream off the market, serving well-to-do customers in urban areas but ignoring people in thinly populated regions. Frank admits that the Postal Service could do a better job. One way to help it do so, he says, is increased capital spending to expand facilities and modernize antiquated equipment. If Congress makes that investment possible, Frank is convinced, postal workers can deliver better service at reasonable prices, not only through snow, rain and gloom of night but in a tougher, more competitive marketplace...