Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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> Institutions are changing in ways that their leaders cannot always grasp. Churches have been dramatically altered by internal disputes over questions of social activism, morals and even creed. Educators have grown uncertain about the social and intellectual purposes of education. Politicians throughout the West have trouble determining the boundaries involved...
Further expansion of trade must be approved by Congress, which is skeptical of deals with the Soviets after the disastrous experience of the 1972 wheat sale. Last week a bill was introduced in Congress that would require congressional approval of all loans over $50 million -relative chicken feed in international...
The ban on ABM expansion spared both superpowers the cost of installing many units of the defensive systems. It also would help to deter nuclear war, according to the Strangelove theory of strategic analysts, by exposing the civilian populations in both countries to attack. This policy of "mutually assured destruction...
Italy has had to borrow so heavily to support the lira that annual interest runs to $700 million. Last March the International Monetary Fund made another loan of $1.2 billion, but only on the proviso that Italy put its economic house in order by reducing deficits, limiting spending, increasing taxes...
Scientists have found other indications of global cooling. For one thing there has been a noticeable expansion of the great belt of dry, high-altitude polar winds -the so-called circumpolar vortex-that sweep from west to east around the top and bottom of the world. Indeed it is the...