Word: widened
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...promise and the frustrations of these Olympics. The marathon - the crowning event in any summer Games - this year will retrace the original route taken by the messenger Pheidippides from the village of Marathon to Athens in 490 B.C. to announce the Athenians' victory over Persia. Organizers wanted to widen the route, but a Greek company assigned to the task took two years to complete 2.5 km. Authorities waited until the firm went belly-up this year before finding a replacement. Work originally scheduled to be completed by April now has a wish-and-a-prayer July deadline, without landscaping...
...making a stronger commitment to ensuring that available drug treatments get to as many of the 40 million infected around the world as possible. Under his direction, the agency is pushing its first antitobacco treaty--urging nations to levy higher taxes on tobacco and widen smoke-free areas--and working to update the international rules for dealing with disease outbreaks. It's an ambitious agenda for WHO, and its success will ultimately rest on how well Lee can move beyond the talk and put it into action. --By Alice Park
...indisputably rising, the federal government—and the American economy—has a direct interest in boosting the number of skilled, educated workers with college degrees. College graduates earn an average of $22,000 more per year than high school graduates, and that gap is expected to widen. Corporations need skilled employees, and the government needs well-trained civil servants. The demand for college graduates is higher than ever...
...Economic Policy Institute's Bernstein says businesses ought to find a way to "share some winnings with those who lose" by creating funds for wage insurance or retraining. Otherwise there is a risk that the benefits of outsourcing will widen the gap between the rich and everyone else. The McKinsey Global Institute, a think tank run by McKinsey & Co., recommends that companies sending jobs abroad contribute about 5% of their savings to an insurance fund that would compensate displaced workers for part of the difference in wages paid by their old and new jobs. During the 1980s and '90s, most...
...says. Singh is also moving to fix the country's tax system, which suffers from loopholes and evasion. This year, the government plans to introduce a single, uniform value-added tax to replace India's jumble of state and local sales taxes; economists expect the new tax regime will widen the government's revenue base and make life easier for India's businessmen...