Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The march will continue to Logan Airport for a "die-in" to protest the development of the supersonic transport and the expansion of Logan. At the airport, the group plans to unload coffins and provide guerrilla theatre.
The reasons for this persistent bias are complex. Part of it is due to the particular skills the industry requires; part to the fact that the industry's greatest expansion came at the time when hiring discrimination was an accepted practice. But whatever the reasons, the results are oppressively clear...
Last week Thieu and Minister of the Economy Pham Kim Ngoc suffered a major defeat in their austerity campaign. In late February, Ngoc eliminated the favored tax status of imported newsprint. His order was designed to 1) stimulate production of newsprint, one of the few industries in the South capable...
For all their Chamber of Commerce talk about long-range planning, many U.S. businessmen have shown a deep-seated distrust of planning, particularly by the Government. They have often been surprised and overwhelmed by the extent of growth and demand. In some cases they did not spend enough for expansion...
But the true spur to efficiency is not fear?either of unemployment or a customer's wrath; it is rather a positive ideal. And that ideal is failing in the affluent urban society of the present time. "People are no longer turned on by the Protestant Ethic," says Abraham Zaleznik...