Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The Soviets benefited from what they accurately enough called this "crisis of capitalism." From their oil exports, mostly to the West but also to their East European allies, the Soviets earned $2 billion last year. However, Russia will rapidly scrape the limits of its self-sufficiency if it is to...
Free Services. The public unrest also reveals a growing dissatisfaction of many Danes with the cost of their cradle-to-grave social-welfare system, pioneered by the Social Democratic Party, which has been the country's major party for the past half-century. Increasingly, Danes question whether they can...
It is that kind of attitude that has made Fred Shero at once the most admired and most despised coach in his sport. He is admired because under his direction the Flyers last season became the first expansion team to win the Stanley Cup. He is despised because the Flyers...
Both men expect their conclusions to stir a storm of protest from some of their colleagues. For, as Gunn puts it, the arguments for a closed universe are almost "theological in nature." Indeed, Gunn finds the implications of an open universe thoroughly mind-boggling and paradoxical. "Even though the density...
Morris Mott, forward for the California Golden Seals and another erudite athlete, is a doctoral candidate in history at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. Then there is Mike Marshall, the Dodger relief pitcher and winner of the Cy Young Award. He retreats to Michigan State every winter to...