In "Stealing Time" (Simon & Schuster, $25.95), written and published in just 11 months after his newspaper series, Mr. Klein has set out to expand it backward and forward into a history of the deal.
When snorkeling, we need to float on water with our faces downward, stretch out our arms forward, and expand our legs backward.
Vertical mergers entail expanding forward or backward in the chain of distribution, toward the source of raw materials or toward the ultimate consumer.
But, while Toy Story 2 and 3 developed the characters and expanded the scope, Monsters University looks backward in every sense.
And so the timing of the expanded force for Darfur may be backward.
At each alternate opening and closing the peridium is split more and more, until finally it is expanded into a flat shape, or even curls backward.
GenAlEx 6.5 maintains backward compatibility, but it provides access to the expanded spreadsheet of Excel 2007 onward.
Instead, Obama officials are in the process of undoing their own good work, increasing the number of people they lock away before any significant legal hearing has been held – and taking a major step backward by expanding the inhumane practice of locking up families.
After two centuries in which we have (mostly) expanded the right to vote, now is hardly the time to start marching backward.
The league expanded to five teams in 2010, but that small step forward coincided with several leaps backward.
