Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Salazar believed that economic development would corrupt his country, and, as many tourists have discovered, Portugal retains a sometimes medieval charm. The Caetano government, on the other hand, is firmly committed to industrial expansion, but is, paradoxically, afraid to innovate to bring it about. As the lackluster election campaign demonstrated...
GRO has already begun along with other groups to collect 7500 signatures to put the initiative petition controlling high-rise development on the ballot this November. Cambridge has suffered too much already from Rindge Towers, NASA developments in Kendall Square, university expansion, and cheap, fast-turnover stores. If this were...
The Cambridge population, on the other hand, is dominated by working-class ethnic communities. The privileges of Harvard students--a minority of whom are working-class ethnics--makes them an obvious target of community hostility. This attitude is hardened by Harvard's expansion tendencies, which, in the context of the...
At Harvard, 80 per cent of the undergraduates are from outside of Massachusetts. Students tend to pay more attention to urban renewal in Akron, Ohio, or rent control efforts in Eugene, Ore., than they do to alleged police brutality in Cambridge or to the implications of Harvard expansion.
During the post-war period, the period of Harvard's (and MIT's) growth and the generally increasing affluence for the middle and upper classes, if not for Cambridge's ethnic and black working class majority, the City Council has been the focus of local bush-league Spiro Agnews. The...