Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The Small Business Administration (SBA) has taken several steps to increase the capital available to women-owned firms. The SBA has established goals for dramatically expanding lending to these firms, increasing the number of loans to women from 3,880 in 1993 to 7,211 in 1994. With other initiatives...
If Congressional elections are rigged to include only newcomers, small states will be like expansion teams lost in a sea of perennial contenders. Even the goal of filling Congress with fresher faces that are more in touch with constituents will not directly follow. Without any campaign finance reform, races for...
Clinton: Grudging thanks for the expansion
Ask White House officials why Bill Clinton is unpopular, and the answer is almost automatic: Americans, they say, don't give him credit for their improving economy. Though growth is robust, inflation is tame and unemployment is at a four-year low, the officials argue that the uneven nature of...
But workers complain that for them expansion spells exhaustion. Throughout American industry, companies are using overtime to wring the most out of the U.S. labor force: the factory workweek currently is averaging a near record 42 hours, including 4.6 hours of overtime. Americans, observes Audrey Freedman, a labor economist and...