Word: expanding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...company watches over its loyal suppliers and rushes to their assistance when they need help. The Sears relationship with Globe-Union, which manufactures DieHard batteries, goes back 59 years. In 1972 Sears bought $8.5 million worth of the company's preferred stock to allow it to expand. Now known as Globe Battery and a division of Johnson Controls, last year it sold Sears $176 million worth of batteries...
Both moves are in line with strategy recommended by many market analysis who say this is a good time to busy stocks because if the recovery lasts through the fall, interest rates will fall and business will expand...
THOUGH NO ONE likes to expand the bureaucracy, the best solution to the existing safety problems in high tech industry is to establish a new agency--one that would monitor solely computer and electronic firms. The narrow focus would enable such an agency to spend money researching the long-term effects of worker exposure to toxic chemicals. The agency could be empowered to prevent high tech companies from using potentially dangerous technology at will...
While many of the positions eliminated in last years belt-tightening have not been reinstated. Murphy said the school has not implemented a complete hiring freeze and is continuing to expand slowly...
...other financial services. Politicians and regulators are likely to be more cautious about allowing banks to enter different fields. In fact, some reregulation of banks may result. St Germain plans to hold hearings in September on the Continental bailout, which he believes shows why banks should be forbidden to expand too far afield...