Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Psychologically, too, the U.S. was filled with extraordinary assurance. Having fought and vanquished two enemies about whose evil nature there was little doubt (the Nazis were perfect devils, and the Japanese of that era were quite satisfactory villains too), the U.S. was not accustomed to moral ambiguities. It was ready...
The better to anticipate and forecast the effects of such dislocations in resources, Taylor proposes creation of a National Policy Council, which would be an expansion of the NSC from its present four members - the President, Vice President, Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense - to seven, adding the Secretary...
Handlin said the structure stretched under the pressures of a larger and more diverse academic community, "the expansion of knowledge and the knowledge industry," and vast injections of government money into the University "for reasons not relating to the advancement of academic pursuits."
expansion of the Third World studies program at Harvard; and,
Growth Stifled. But the creation of reserves is only the first step in expanding the money supply. Customers must actively borrow and make deposits if banks are to be able to turn their checking-account deposits into an expansion of credit several times as large. Yet this is not happening...