Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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11. Name the first expansion team to defeat a pre-1967 club in a playoff series.
13. The Flyers became the first expansion team to win the Stanley Cup when they defeated, successively, Atlanta, New York and Boston. Who scored the winning goal of the final game of each series, and who assisted on the Cup-winning goal?
In Washington, the ceremony mirroring the activities in Peking took place in China's liaison office on Connecticut Avenue. One eye popper for the 500 guests was an American flag that the Chinese had tacked on the wall-but backward, its stripes pointed to the left. Unruffled by this...
Windham's fall is scarcely an isolated case. For America's 1,500 private colleges, the 1970s have proved as much a time of retrenchment in higher education as the 1960s were a period of headlong expansion. Ten colleges shut their doors in 1978, bringing the total of...
Now, after almost a decade of trimming fat-mowing the lawn less often, deferring painting and plastering, scrapping expansion plans, reducing support staff-private colleges face the prospect of still deeper cuts. Notes Notre Dame's Hesburgh: "The situation is all the more dangerous because it is a slow...