Word: expands
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...light. After years of exposure to sunlight, the damage becomes visible first as small, scaly, precancerous spots called keratoses, usually on middle-aged or older people and in areas of the skin generally not protected by clothing. These spots can turn malignant, becoming translucent basal-cell nodules that slowly expand into adjoining tissue...
Since 1947, the 1,000 Mohawks of the Kanesatake reserve near Oka have claimed land that the village wants to use to expand a golf course. The federal government in Ottawa rejected that claim in 1986, but the Mohawks demanded further negotiations and last March finally set up a blockade to prevent the extension...
Bush says he is willing to send technical advisers to show the Soviets how to expand institutions that are just taking shape there, like commercial banks, a stock market, accounting firms, private construction and agricultural businesses. He could go further and outflank the stultifying bureaucracy by offering to provide funds directly to those market-oriented innovations. He might give loans, along with managerial training, to budding Soviet entrepreneurs who want to buy state enterprises that are marked for privatization. Well handled, such new companies could demonstrate the virtues of perestroika and provide employment for some of the millions who will...
...billion) last year captured a dominant 30% share of Japan's $1.3 billion market for golf and baseball equipment. Now it is launching a major drive into the U.S. and other countries. "Grandfather founded the company, and father introduced technological innovations," Masato says. "Now it's my turn to expand and truly internationalize...
Retailing is a classic small business in the Western world and should become so again in East Germany. Despite the best efforts of the Communists to squeeze out the last private retailers, 17,000 were still in business when the Wall fell. Many of them are eager to expand. West German suppliers, keen to see a viable network of small retailers, are advancing goods on credit and helping in other ways like donating old cash registers and display cases. The threat to the independent East German retailer is no longer the bureaucrat but the competing capitalist...