Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The statement cited the need for more trained experts on Soviet affairs, especially since the advent of the detente policy. Russia's institute for study of the United States (modeled after Harvard's Russian Research Center) has begun a major expansion, the statement said.
Cambridge Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci said last night a severe Cambridge housing shortage caused by the massive post-war expansion of Harvard is the primary reason for strained relations between Harvard and Cambridge residents.
If more people were to be put in jail for longer periods, a large scale prison expansion will be mandatory. With many counties, states and the federal government operating near or on deficits, few prisons will be built and antiquated facilities will simply be stuffed with more bodies. Months ago...
As a result, the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has been forced to scale down growth forecasts for its 24 member nations, which make up most of the non-Communist industrialized world. Assuming no change in policy, and without allowing for the deadening impact of an oil...
The troubles began five years ago when Mobutu, an autocrat who always carries a traditional tribal chieftain's stick decorated with carved figures of birds and snakes, decreed an ambitious industrialization program. Instead of investing in agriculture-which would have increased food supplies and given many more Zaï...