Word: expanding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also intent on improving relations with the Soviet Union. In her meeting with the leadership, she managed to strike a subtle balance between the stiffly formal Kremlin protocol and the more relaxed style of Western diplomatic gestures. TIME has learned that Thatcher, in consultation with Washington, hopes to expand bilateral meetings between East-bloc and Western foreign ministers in order to lay the groundwork for a possible superpower summit along the lines of the 1974 meeting between President Gerald Ford and Brezhnev in Vladivostok. Said Thatcher: "If there is to be progress on arms control, it will come not through...
Last year, Moeller decided to expand the program to include the MCI Concord...
Traveler is broadly ambitious; Norman has dared to expand since her most recent success, 'Night Mother, characterized by its tightly-defined unity of time, space and action. ('Night Mother, like Traveler, also premiered at the American Repertory Theatre, and it won the Pulitzer Prize for Best Drama last spring.) Four characters inhabit the world of Traveler, the action takes place outdoors, and the conflicts are multiple and complex. But Traveler lacks 'Night Mother's greatest strength: believability...
Indeed, more plants ? 18 ? were canceled in 1982 than in any other year since the U.S. first went nuclear. Encouraged by the strongly pro-nuclear Reagan Administration, other utilities ignored the omens and pressed on with plans to expand their generating capacity in expectation that demand would soon come back. Still others kept building nuclear plants on the ground that it was often more economical to complete the multibillion-dollar projects than to abandon them. That assumption sometimes proved erroneous. Constructing nuclear plants has proved very expensive. In the early 1970s, says Charles Komanoff of the New York...
...ailing First Federal Savings & Loan ($4 billion) and Miami's New Biscayne Federal Savings ($1.9 billion). A year ago Citicorp purchased California's big Fidelity Savings & Loan ($2.9 billion). During the 1960s and '70s, many money-center banks began looking overseas in search of opportunities to expand. But with their books now showing bad debts from Poland, Brazil and other countries, bankers are trying to tap safer, domestic markets...