Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The substantive issue of Pompidou's first referendum, held last Sunday, was not as controversial as De Gaulle's last. By now, most Frenchmen assume the expansion of the Market to be a fait accompli. The only real question was how many of the 30 million eligible voters...
"It is," he said, "ecological idiocy." Idiocy or not, the U.S. appears committed to a constant expansion of its electricity production. Last week, in a massive survey of the problems and prospects, the Federal Power Commission declared that the nation's present generating capacity of 340 million kilowatts must...
Television's expansion of profit and audience transformed the life of the professional athlete. It forced him to become a businessman in order to share in TV's financial bonanza: "Two things accompanied the money athletes on their road to the banks of America, in addition to the hoopla and...
The Blues now have lost 14 consecutive playoff games to pre-expansion teams in the NHL. St. Louis has been outscored in the stretch 59-20. The two teams move on to St. Louis for the third and fourth games Sunday and Tuesday.
Consumer spending, the most potent force for expansion, is the weakest indicator so far. The latest index of consumer sentiment compiled by the University of Michigan notes that people are now more confident than in recent months about the prospects of the economy in general, but expectations for their own...