Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The proposed limit of "no more than three" such signs per mile would be a legal restriction, not an expansion as implied in your story. There is no statutory restriction whatever in existing law.
There is currently no statutory restriction on the number of signs per mile. But the present law gives the Department of Transportation the power to regulate, and the department permits not more than three signs for a scenic or historical attraction or a natural wonder within a 75-mile radius...
Some fear that an end to population growth will produce social and economic stagnation, holding that major American institutions-including Government and the free economy-require constant expansion. But most agree that the U.S. would be better off if its rate of expansion could be considerably slowed.
Most experts assume that Z.P.G., if it indeed arrives, will be an age of abundance for many Americans. A slowing of growth has meant relative affluence for Sweden and West Germany. Population Analyst Ben Wattenberg, in his book The Real America (TIME, Sept. 2), declares: "The birth dearth may well...
Those of you who will live three people to a double will understand all too well how merger affects everyone physically, not to mention politically and spiritually. Doubts about the capabilities of women undergraduates aside, it is becoming increasingly apparent to Harvard administrators that the College cannot tolerate much more...