Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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In an apparent shift to a more active stnance, the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) Wednesday recommended that the Harvard Corporation support a series of shareholder resolutions demanding that one U.S.corportion withdraw completely from South Africa, and another company to stop proposed expansion there.
The changes include the creation of a new minority admissions administrative post and a special Faculty committee to oversee minority admissions and an expansion of financial aid for minority students.
Because higher education is one of Greater Boston's most important industries, the devastation caused by university expansion has been extensive. Mather House is built on the rubble of three-deckers that Harvard began to purchase and rent out to its professors and students during the ten year period before...
The expansion of MIT, which was funded by tremendous amounts of government research money after World War II, eventually destroyed Kendall Square's working community; the residential and business character of the Kenmore Square area near Boston University has radically changed, becoming a Disco, college-oriented center to attract the...
Carter has tried to encourage business spending by including in his economic-stimulus program an increase in the investment tax credit from 10% to 12%. But the House turned it down, and the Senate has yet to vote. Even if it finally passes, businessmen have one last, and huge, investment...