Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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He has been caught in the middle of the on-going expansion of athletic facilities here, and he seems pleased with much of the progress during his tenure.
Since czarist times, the rulers of Russia have probed southward, seeking access to the southern sea lanes that are now major oil routes and thus the lifeline of the industrialized world. So far, the Western powers have succeeded in thwarting the Russians. In the 19th century the British Empire, from...
Many businessmen and economists believe that any guidelines program would deal only with the symptoms of inflation and not its root causes, notably bulging deficits and a too-rapid expansion of the U.S. money supply. But the Federal Reserve lately has been making progress in reducing money growth toward Miller...
"We will see a major expansion in spending for energy conservation and development. For nuclear, solar, shale, sands-all of them. We will get an extraordinary amount of basic research. There will be an awful lot of replacement and modernization across the board-in steel, paper, textiles, chemicals, aluminum. I...
At the end of a decade of undisciplined expansion, growing pains have begun to set in. On the eve of the U.S. Open, 15 former tennis greats-among them Fred Perry, Tony Trabert, Vic Seixas, Roy Emerson and Alice Marble-put their names to a two-page warning in a...