Word: expanding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...keep the highly volatile gas in its liquid form, the tanks were also equipped with thermostats, valves and other devices to warn when the temperature of the chemical exceeded 100° F, the point at which the liquid turns into a gas. Should the temperature rise further, the gas would expand, increasing pressure on the inside of the tank. Should the pressure build, a relief valve would vent the gas in order to prevent a rupture of the tank...
Harvard plans to build a new kitchen in the passageway between Kirkland and Eliot Houses this summer in an effort to expand seating in the two dining halls and ease preparation and cleanup for food workers, officials said yesterday...
Harvard, however, wants to keep the property it bought from Lesley College for $1.4 million to expand two of its most rapidly growing women's studies resources: the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library and the Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute...
...incipient entente, although modest, is also showing up elsewhere. Mikhail Gorbachev, heir apparent to Soviet Leader Konstantin Chernenko, will visit Britain for a week in December (see box). As Shultz arrives in Geneva in January, a U.S. Commerce official will be in Moscow for quieter talks about how to expand U.S.-Soviet trade. This week Soviet Minister of Agriculture Valentin Mesyats will begin a twelve-day tour of the American heartland; aside from Gromyko, no Soviet minister has visited the U.S. since 1979. Last week Pop Singer John Denver embarked on a concert tour of the Soviet Union, the first...
...University's survey, distributed last fall and collected in early summer, was intended to update and expand on the so-called Dunlop Survey of 1968, conducted by then-Dean of the Faculty John T. Dunlop...