Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Beseiged by a policy of uncoordinated and uncontrolled expansion from the Harvard Medical School, the Mission Hill community of Boston is squaring away for a fight that will decide the future survival of the community. As Harvard moves relentlessly forward to build one of the largest and most costly construction...
Economically, Angola is an extremely rich prize: in addition to its booming industry and commerce, it possesses vast supplies of diamonds, iron, coffee, cotton and other natural resources. Texaco has discovered an oil bed off northern Angola which is half as large as that of Nigeria and ten times the...
Union leaders angrily deny that their demands are unreasonable. Thundered Jerry Wurf, the unyielding president of the AFSCME: "Public officials play a double-barreled game. They promise expansion of services and contraction of taxes. When they can't deliver, they make us the scapegoats." In fact, according to the...
Through Japanese socialist leaders, the Chinese have urged Japan to maintain security treaties with the U.S. Teng recently warned visiting President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines against Soviet expansion in Asia. The Vice Premier referred to the old Chinese proverb: "Guard against letting the tiger in through the back door...
Another prime requisite is that governments should be prepared to change fiscal-monetary policy in the early stages of slump or boom. A mildly restrictive policy in the late 1960s would have done more to restrain price increases than the recurring rounds of supertight money that followed after inflation had...