Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Venturi revels in the forms of the gambling casinos. For him the front colonnade of Caesar's Palace becomes like St. Peter's in Rome; the blue and, gold mosaic work like the Early Christian tomb of Galia Placidia; the cypresses in the parking lot like the Villa D'Este...
By granting a rate increase to American Telephone & Telegraph Co. last week, the Federal Communications Commission took an action that will help to buttress the U.S. stock market, prop up capital spending and hold down interest charges. When AT&T rates and profits rise, many things happen in the broader...
Acrobatics. In late October a member of the St. Petersburg city council asked the Times to prepare a pro-con page on a proposed runway extension to accommodate private jets at the city's small airstrip, an issue that was coming up for council consideration. The Times complied, presented...
THE AMERICAN HERITAGE HISTORY OF AMERICAN BUSINESS & INDUSTRY by Alex Groner and editors of American Heritage and Business Week. 384 pages. American Heritage. $17.95. Capitalism, usually dated from the publication of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776), conveniently has the same birth year as the American Republic, and...
But the fact remains that there was a surplus this year, despite all the dire warnings. The unexpectedly rosy picture is not due to an increase in income, although the endowment did go up $100 million to almost $1.4 billion, an expansion partly due to a general surge in the...