Word: sprawl
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...concrete goal I had, and I was determined to make it happen. I liked my topic: translations of English literary texts into Chinese in Taiwan, their importance in the publishing industry, and their cultural influence. The scope was a bit too broad, typical for someone who tends toward academic sprawl, but I figured I could narrow it down...
...southeastward sprawl along California's Highway 111 has nearly doubled the valley's population, from 88,000 to 170,000, since 1970. In recent years the number of new houses, condominiums and hotels in the strip has grown as much as 60% a year. The value of building permits in the community of Palm Desert leaped 495% in 1985. Indian Wells, which had 800 residents when it was incorporated in 1967, now has 1,900 with an average annual income of $74,000, making it one of the nation's wealthiest communities. Some 8,000 residences are now abuilding...
...running in Fort Lauderdale for most of January; and will finish in Washington on Feb. 2. Founded in 1953 by Tyrone Guthrie, the Stratford company prides itself on echoing the style of Britain's Old Vic of the 1940s, which in turn derived from an earlier era. Stratford productions sprawl grandly. The stage spills over with bodies, and even walk-ons are played by seasoned performers. Directors seem concerned more with creating stage pictures than with unearthing moments of character revelation. There is scant search for subtext, for the sort of humanity that lurks within people rather than revealing itself...
...bank was part of the Bank of America empire founded by A.P. Giannini and eventually was spun off as an independent after Congress passed a law that mandated the divestiture. Pinola's dream is to rejoin his twelve-state regional firm with BankAmerica's single-state, 895-branch sprawl to become what one First Interstate executive calls the "premier retail bank in America." Pinola's idea of the new company's competition, as he told TIME last week, includes not only other banks, but "Sears, General Motors and everybody else who will be involved in the lending business...
...editorial page, Editor Anderson cleaned up the paper's format by reducing the cluttered eight-column pages to six and laying out stories in easy-to-read rectangular units instead of the traditional vertical strips. Anderson also ran much more news about Orange County, an 800-sq.-mi. sprawl of 26 municipalities and scores of towns, with a population of more than 2 million...