Word: expansionism
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Project Independence is the U.S. effort, still largely undefined, to achieve near total independence of OPEC by the 1980s through conservation and expansion of domestic energy production.
Most companies are likely to want to defer expansion programs at least until they can unload the Mt. Everests of unsold goods they have accumulated. Last week the Commerce Department disclosed that largely because of the buildup of unsold autos, business inventories in October rose $5.6 billion, the biggest monthly...
That conclusion will be disturbing to those who find the concept of an infinitely expanding or "open" universe to be philosophically unsatisfactory. "Closed universe" scientists have long contended that if there was enough matter in or between the galaxies, there would be enough mutual gravitational attraction to gradually slow their...
Sandage, of the Hale Observatories, bases his conclusion on 15 years of pains taking observations of distant galaxies and measurement of the amount that their light is shifted toward the red (or lower frequency) end of the spectrum. Just as the pitch (or frequency) of a siren appears to lower...
Using his new yardstick, he concluded that all galaxies were more distant than astronomers had previously believed. That, in turn, meant the expansion had been going on longer than anyone thought, and that the age of the universe was at least 16 billion years, or roughly 4 billion to 6...