Word: deepened
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French President Francois Mitterrand insists that the E.C. can both deepen and widen: achieve the Community's goals and help Eastern Europe. But even Delors, "Mr. 1992," doubts whether that aim is achievable: he fears that Germany's preoccupation with making unification work and its commercial expansion into Eastern Europe will slow down the process of E.C. integration...
...sentiment on the right was Newt Gingrich of Georgia, long a spokesman for Republicans still enthralled with Reaganomics. He temporarily relinquished his post as House Republican whip to lead a crusade against the tax increases at the heart of the measure. "This budget package with its higher taxes will deepen the recession and increase the number of unemployed," he said. Gingrich urged a freeze on discretionary social spending, which would ease pressure on Medicare, and revived the argument for a cut in the capital-gains tax, though that would lose money over the long...
...sound too Calvinistic, will come to bear in the downturn, making it deeper than it otherwise would be. And the medium of that will be a shrinkage in the availability of credit. Just as the advent of ever longer maturities in car loans, for example, helped prolong and deepen the expansion, so will shrinkage in the terms of credit -- whether they be in car loans or mortgages or corporate lending -- deepen the recession. I am not at all sure this is going to be a Grapes of Wrath. At least, I hope not. But I think by the time...
Thirty-five years ago, half a dozen students at Korea University in Seoul decided to deepen their understanding of the world and polish their knowledge of English by meeting to read and translate TIME. The idea blossomed into a more formal organization known as the Time Club. Since its founding, the organization has attracted thousands of members and generated similar groups at more than 50 other universities around the country...
...State Department there were suspicions that the Administration's preferred scapegoat might be Ambassador April Glaspie, who left Baghdad for Washington the day before the invasion. At a meeting with Saddam on July 25 she told the Iraqi President that George Bush "personally wants to expand and deepen the relationship with Iraq." She assured him that "we don't have much to say about Arab-Arab differences, like your border differences with Kuwait. All we hope is that you solve those matters quickly...