Word: expanders
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Cigar Doesn't anyone return Fidel Castro's phone calls these days? The aging dictator saw most of his communist soul mates get tossed onto the dustheap of history, and the cash-strapped Soviets may be close to ending their $5 billion annual subsidy. Castro's efforts to expand tourism won't make up the difference...
College is supposed to be a place where you investigate new ideas and later form your own theories about life but sometimes I wonder. How can we expand our knowledge, become the culturally literate people we're supposed to be if we are unwilling to hear a new perspective? Are we so afraid of being taken out of the confines of our own narrow existences that we must unfairly silence and delegitimize the works of talented writers...
Also this quest is clearly inclusionary or pluralistic: it seeks to expand the composition of student bodies and of faculty in our heretofore mono-racial universities and uni-gender faculty. This concern, I think, is genuine, but need not be cause of anxiety and thus for counter-politicization thrusts like...
...supplement, Nye argues that Harvard should expand its international student population by 200, because it is beneficial for the student body as a whole...
...those living in eastern Germany, no amount of assistance and investment will be large enough or delivered fast enough. The number of unemployed in the region, estimated at half a million, threatens to expand further as enterprises come to the end of the interim period during which they had to keep underemployed workers on their payrolls. Some economists warn that half of the 8.5 million workers in the East could lose their jobs. Patience in the East is wearing thin: violence, including some directed against the small number of foreigners in the area, has been growing sharply...