Word: expanding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Washington's best hope was that Israel's decision would breathe life into the stalemated negotiations between Israel and Lebanon being held in the Lebanese town of Naqoura. The talks have faltered over Lebanon's rejection, as an infringement on its sovereignty, of two Israeli proposals. One is to expand the role of the 5,252-man United Nations peace-keeping force stationed in southern Lebanon in the wake of an Israeli withdrawal, the other to allot some security duties to an Israeli-backed Lebanese militia in the immediate border region. As U.N. Under Secretary-General Brian Urquhart tried last...
Largely as a consequence, SUNY's trustees and the heads of its 64 campuses have lacked the authority to build a first-class university. Even Chancellor Wharton cannot shift a secretarial position or substantially expand a department without permission from the state division of the budget. Tuition money is bled away to pay off old construction debts. And there is not enough new money to lure crack faculty or beef up the graduate curriculum. Under the dead hand of such regulations, continues the report, SUNY is "well behind" other major public universities in research and graduate education...
Harvard announces a plan to construct an approximately $1 million high technology greenhouse to accommodate a newly tenured plant ecologist. The greenhouse is also part of the Biology departments larger effort to expand its experimental botany programs...
...wives who come here for the state dinners, they always ask me about the drug program. They are interested in doing something in their countries. Wouldn't it be wonderful if you could give all those wives the advantage of what we have learned? I would like to expand the program out of this country...
...many areas where it should not be, (although) there are areas where the private sector cannot function. The public sector is used for opening up undeveloped areas, something the private sector cannot do. Nonetheless, we will be opening up more to the private sector so that it can expand and the economy can grow freely. We did a lot (of that) in the cement industry, and it is booming...