Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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It was to protect the Indians against usurpations that Congress in 1790 adopted the so-called Nonintercourse Act. This law provided that no Indian land could change hands without congressional approval. In fact, the act mainly reserved to the Federal Government those further immense acquisitions of Indian territory that would...
Trading in options, currently the hottest speculative arena, will be another of Williams' concerns. Options are the right to buy or sell stocks at a specified price within a set period of time. Currently they are traded mainly on the Chicago Board Options Exchange, but they have also spread...
Congress created a commission to study recodification into one coherent volume as long ago as 1966. But after a bill was introduced by Senator John L. McClellan and two associates in 1973, the Nixon Administration responded with its own version containing a series of repressive measures. Among them: a vast...
"There has always been a parking problem in the area and the expansion of the Legal Sea Food restaurant increased the problem," Richards said, adding that crowded conditions forced community residents to rent space in commercial parking lots.
Citing specific cases, he said the United States should withdraw its remaining forces from Taiwan and remove pressure from Japan to expand its military power because expansion "would unsettle all of Asia."