Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nature should also be modified in other ways, Dubos believes. "Many richnesses of nature are brought to light only in regions that have been humanized"-that is, transformed by human toil into agricultural lands, gardens and parks. But Dubos warned that for every pound of food produced by these areas...
As in any ski town, there are problems of extreme expansion and contraction. The population swells from 700 in summer to as many as 10,000 in winter. On weekends, Vail's eight policemen, normally preoccupied with nothing more serious than ski-equipment thefts (the biggest crime category), struggle...
The demonstration was sparked by the recent expansion of U.S. bombing raids reported on Monday.
An important check on the big banks' expansion policies could come in the next few weeks, when the Supreme Court is due to rule on a landmark case involving an offer by the First National Bancorporation Inc. of Denver to buy the First National Bank of Greeley, Colo. The...
Many of his urban designs have since been bastardized, and the parks he completed have been eroded by careless crowds, inadequate maintenance and spurious development. Consequently some of Olmsted's New York projects-Morningside Park in Manhattan, Tompkins Park and Prospect Park in Brooklyn-are now parodies of their...