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But the Soviet Union’s aging communist leadership, encouraged by the OPEC-generated oil-price explosion and the discovery of massive hydrocarbon reserves in western Siberia, took a different tack, using natural-resource revenues to finance continued military expansion.

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But unfortunately, CCAMLR, the regional commission in charge of conserving and managing fish stocks and other living marine resources, is unfortunately starting to give in to fishing interests and has authorized the expansion of toothfish fisheries in the region.

And these telescopes, among other things, they're being used to study how the expansion of the universe is changing with time.

He didn't know about the expansion of the universe.

It means an expansion in the range of scientific problems we can hope to attack at all.

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