Word: expanding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...startling revelation, North said Casey had intended to expand this fund with the arms sales profits and use it as an "off-the-shelf, self- sustaining, stand-alone" fund for operations that the director felt the CIA could not or should not carry out. This would get around two bothersome legal requirements: having to seek presidential approval and then reporting the supersecret presidential "finding" to Congress. Democratic Senator Daniel Inouye, who presided over the hearings, called this an attempt to create a "secret government within our Government...
...airline fleets, according to a General Accounting Office study published in May. From 1981 until 1983 the ranks of FAA inspectors actually shrank, from about 1,750 to 1,500. But at least partly in response to the GAO's study, the FAA is carrying out plans to expand its staff of inspectors to more than 1,900 by September...
Many workers have had to give up cost of living allowances, or COLAs, a form of wage protection that spread widely during the high-inflation 1970s. Many corporations are seeking to replace regular pay raises with annual bonus systems. These lump-sum payments, common in executive circles, expand and contract with a company's profitability. The advantage for employers is that the bonuses cost less over the long haul because they do not compound year after year, as raises do. Last October, Boeing reached an agreement with its machinists that froze basic wages while granting annual bonuses that will average...
Late last year, when Deng himself moved toward acknowledging the criticism, the reform campaign began to run out of steam. He accepted the ouster of his protege, Hu Yaobang, from the important post of party General Secretary and slowed down measures to expand China's fledgling market economy. Debate on political reform, especially sensitive after the demonstrations, was shelved. With Deng apparently on their side, the conservatives pressed ahead with their campaign against capitalist thinking and Western influence...
Meanwhile, on other fronts, Thornburgh haspushed to expand the study of electoral politicsthroughout the University. Part of the dealbringing him to Harvard included the formation ofa faculty committee to study closely how electoralpolitics could be included in different schools'curricula and how they could be taught. He admitsthat instruction on electoral politics has notbeen extensive at Harvard and throughout academia,but he eventually hopes to see some type ofinstruction on the subject available at theCollege, the Law School, and the Business School,among others...