Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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New York offers more services than any other U.S. city. Inevitably, some of these will have to be cut back. A prime target of almost every disinterested observer is the municipal hospital system, which costs the city more than $304 million a year. The bed-occupancy rate of the 18...
A request by the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) last week for an expansion of Dean Rosovsky's proposed study of the controversial 1-1-2 housing plan resulted from a misunderstanding of his intentions, Rosovsky said last night.
The plan will have some support in Congress: many Democrats have called for a crash program to develop alternate sources of energy. Presidential Hopeful Henry Jackson of Washington State last week needled Ford by congratulating him on having abandoned the idea that reliance on the free market is the solution...
Davis poured millions of pounds into buying leisure industries, hotels and real estate, the last of which saddled Rank with a $380 million development program at the moment the bottom fell out of the British real estate market in 1973. He also angered American shareholders by making an abortive bid...
When discussing history, however, Smith is on better ground. Since World War II and especially after the Soviet Sputnik launching in 1958, the government and big business foundations have poured money into selected schools. They have tailored their gifts to expansion of pure and applied science programs that train scientists...