Word: expands
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...California's nonfarm economy, the drought's long-term effects will probably be more important than the immediate ones. "We will survive the drought," says Gary Burke, president of the Santa Clara County Manufacturing Group. "But what effect will the drought have on companies' plans to expand and new businesses' decisions to locate in Santa Clara...
...blacks lack the education and skills needed to expand the economy significantly in the short term. "There is absolutely no way that those expectations will be met," says Kehla Shubane, 32, a researcher at the University of Witwatersrand. Under optimal conditions, it could take South Africa between five and 10 years to begin making tangible progress. If adopted, the A.N.C.'s socialist-oriented economic proposals -- popular with the lost generation -- would only postpone material improvement...
...cities, Sennett argues, obliterate value instead of creating it. Beguilingly democratic, they neutralize unequal and unpredictable landscapes with grid patterns that provide useful chessboards for economic competition. The standardizing grids expand not just outwards, but upwards, in skyscrapers whose sixth floors and 60th floors are identical, as well as across time, thanks to the modern invention of clocks to "cut time into meaningless fragments of deadening routine...
Although such popular environmental studies programs are often short on resources necessary to expand, the mere existence of the programs can attract substantial financial support...
...example, Harvard suffers from a "collossal physical restraint," the director says. Space problems in the current dining and kitchen facilities may inhibit attempts to expand current services, Berry adds...