Word: expanding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BOSTON--Massachusetts revenue officials, ever on the watch for a new tax source, are planning to expand their efforts at tapping the ill-gotten gains of drug dealers by levying the state sales tax on their illegal transactions...
Tsarkova said she will enter Harvard as a junior and continue her studies in computer science. But she added that she viewed her acceptance to the University as an opportunity to expand her academic horizons...
...seized on this tip as a chance to expand its responsibility for the security of uncoded communications at U.S. embassies, a traditional CIA and State Department domain. "Basically, NSA did an end run around ((director of Central Intelligence William)) Casey," says a senior security official. The NSA went straight to the White House, and persuaded President Reagan to let it replace all U.S. communications equipment in Moscow. In the spring of 1984 Operation Gunman discovered Soviet bugs in 17 embassy typewriters. "NSA's stock rose tremendously after that," recalls a former senior technical security expert...
...result, child care has become a hot-button political issue, and both Democrats and Republicans are scrambling to cater to the concerns of working parents. Last week the Senate approved an ambitious Democratic plan, dubbed the Act for Better Child Care, or ABC, that would vastly expand the Federal Government's role, at a cost of $8.75 billion over the next five years. The bill would authorize $1.75 billion each year to help low-income parents pay for child care. Parents would receive 70% of the funds directly; the remaining 30% would go to the states to expand day-care...
...threatened to veto ABC, but it is difficult to see how he can sustain such a veto. Although the vote broke down largely on party lines, nine Republicans joined 54 Democrats in passing the plan. Moreover, the House is working on a / bill similar to ABC that would also expand the Head Start program and offer school-based care to latchkey children. Bowing perhaps to political reality, the Administration indicated last week that it would be willing to discuss how ABC can be improved...