Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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A graduate of the Cambridge public schools and American International College in Springfield, Leonard J. Clarke, at age 22, is the youngest candidate in the race and expects his support to come from young voters and their parents. He ticked off a list of his major objectives if he is...
But, Sale argues, Nixon went too far, extending the powers of his presidency in order to implement his program of cowboy reforms and antagonizing important yankee interests in the process. He attempted to turn the clock back to the pre-FDR era by making sizable cutbacks in welfare allocations, sometimes...
Third, the prevention of Soviet expansion, which remains a primary objective of American policy, has to be carried out in a more complicated way than in the 1940s and 1950s.
BUT WILLIAM SIMON, ever-resourceful, has a new wrinkle called "the profits depression," to explain the imminence of a capital crisis. There are three ways in which businesses acquire capital for plant and equipment expansion: they retain earnings or profits, they sell stocks, or they sell bonds. Over the past...
Lowest Level. Evidence of a more liberal policy came last week from the board's actions on so-called Federal Funds-that banks lend to each other overnight. The interest rate on such loans is heavily influenced by the Federal Reserve's purchases or sales of Government securities...