Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Students did take the Cold War and the threat of communist expansion--brought home by the more immediate threat of the draft--seriously. But few, such as Monroe H. Freedman '52, now dean of Hofstra Law School and a member of the national board of the American Civil Liberties Union...
Is growth dead? The debate over whether economic expansion ought to be laid to rest as a social goal has been perking along briskly since the early 1970s and the publication of The Limits to Growth, the Club of Rome's fervent (and flawed) argument that as population increases...
As a father of three, Beckerman is indulgent toward youthful ecofreaks. "Poor old radical youth; it's hard not to sympathize with them," he sighs. But "pollution hysteria" generated by such studies as The Limits to Growth, he adds sternly, is another example of the odd doom consciousness that...
In regard to South Africa, the ACSR, after careful study, has adopted the view that a complete withdrawal of American companies from South Africa would not, at this time, be the wisest course (a view which I personally do not share). The ACSR felt that the issues of withdrawal or...
One vote Ratner fails to point out, however, is the ACSR and the Harvard Corporation's favorable vote on a proxy issue at Union Carbide. This proxy would have required Union Carbide to stop all further expansion in South Africa if passed by a majority of Union Carbide shareholders.