Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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He accepted because the appointment makes Strauss, 58, the minister of U.S. trade and the President's chief adviser on international economic affairs, an extraordinarily powerful position that will carry Cabinet rank. The basic job was originally created by Congress in 1962 as part of President Kennedy's...
Huntington maintains that he turned against the Vietnam War, in the late '60s and urged 1968 Democratic Presidential candidate Hubert Humphrey to advocate a bombing halt. He cites his article, "Bases of Accommodation," published in the July 1968 issue of Foreign Affairs, as evidence of his changed views. But in...
Junior League has been the traditional gravy train for pro players ever since teams like the Trail Smokesters and the Pendicton V's won the world hockey championship. Dea's father played Junior hockey, and he has two cousins in the NHL. One is Billy Dea, who played from 1953...
Still, the government is pressing ahead with expansion programs. Under the newest five-year plan, approved in September, India will allot $22 billion in public money to increase production in "core" industries, including oil and fertilizers. Liberalization of import controls is bringing in raw materials for export industries and supplies...
Business investment, however, remains uncomfortably soft. Both Greenspan and Schultze believe that the key to a sustained recovery is getting companies to step up their spending on expansion; they disagree about how to do it. In the Ford Administration's final economic report, out last week, Ford's...