Word: expands
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...structure on the actual education of undergraduates goes further than simply directing them away from courses in which they have an interest. It actually impedes intellectual growth. The small number of electives a students must take represents a failure on the part of the Faculty to push students to expand their horizons. But far more pernicious is that fact that the current structure demands that undergraduates declare a concentration at the end of their first year, i.e., after they have completed only four courses and are in the middle of four others. Some of these are almost always Cores, expository...
Marsden said the University will soon make changes to the health care options it offers in response to the mergers of several major health plans. But he said the committee, at the request of several faculty members, will attempt to preserve and expand options in the plan that offer physician choice...
Scientists love to swap these stories almost as much as they enjoy debunking oft-repeated twister myths (like the one about tornadoes driving bits of straw through fence posts--what may actually happen, scientists suggest, is that a sudden drop in air pressure forces the wood to expand, allowing the straw to lodge in newly opened cracks). But even with all they've learned about the physical forces that power the creation of twisters, meteorologists still cannot say beforehand what path a particular tornado is likely to take or how much damage it is likely to do. That's what...
...security apparatus in return for his support. "There has been a lot of talk recently about various alliances," says TIME's Moscow Bureau Chief John Kohan. "Various groups are proposing coalitions to preserve stability in Russia, but most of them are simply pre-election manipulations. Yeltsin is trying to expand his power base. If he goes into the election with Yavlinsky against him, Yavlinsky may take votes away from Yeltsin's camp. This coalition building is just a lot of eyewash before the vote." -->