Word: expanding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Once discrepancies in two slightly different plans approved by the House and a version passed earlier by the Senate have been ironed out, the program will land on George Bush's desk. The House version would expand Head Start programs for impoverished preschoolers, increase tax credits for poor families with three or more children and require states to set health and safety standards for child-care facilities. Though the President may grit his teeth, he may sign the act into law because it is attached to a budget-reconciliation package that contains a component very dear to his heart...
...supervisors and nonunion personnel to put the final touches on dozens of jets that stand virtually completed at its assembly plants in Renton and Everett, Wash. The company pledges to observe strict safety standards. But the Federal Aviation Administration, taking no chances, announced last week that it would "significantly expand" its inspections of the company's assembly lines to ensure compliance with FAA rules...
Peruvian officials fear Shining Path ranks will expand swiftly if the government succeeds in reducing the cocaine trade without providing alternate sources of income to peasants...
Former Boston University Professor of History David D. Hall '58 will help expand the masters and doctoral programs in Unitarian Universalist Studies at the Div School, filling the gap left by the 1987 retirement of Professor C. Conrad Wright...
Last week's elections provide a ray of hope. Several candidates running as political progressive were elected as representatives. These new council members now bear the burden of working together to convince the whole council to maintain the political role it has taken on in recent years--and to expand that role by building a convincing and progressive student position on what the University's mission really should...