Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Baseball lacks action today because team-shuffling shylocks like Finley have been instrumental in league expansion, which has spread player talent so thin that rule changes and orange balls are needed to keep fan interest.
4) The onset of a post-industrial society. Perhaps the most portentous change, however, is the relative decline of manufacturing and the rise of a service economy. Just as a century ago, one began to see the change from an agrarian to an industrial society, so one can now see...
The rapid rise is occurring despite the lack of any political agreement between the two superpowers on trade. Last January Moscow abrogated a trade-expansion treaty that would have lowered American tariffs on Soviet goods and made Soviet buyers of U.S. products eligible for long-term credits from the Export...
To spur a faster expansion of sales to the Soviets, President Ford plans to send Congress a new trade bill that would allow the Russians long-term credits without any political conditions. The Administration's argument: the Jackson Amendment did not help Soviet Jews (who are being allowed to...
High Attrition. By one measure, the beer industry for decades has been shrinking faster than it has been growing. About 700 companies began brewing beer legally when Prohibition ended in 1933; today there are only 54, operating some 100 breweries. The attrition rate is still high, and it is even...