Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That is how TIME's Board of Economists views the Recession of '79, which it forecast as early as last November and which began in April. The bipartisan board agrees that the worst is yet to come: the recession will last 12 to 15 months rather than six...
University fund-raisers have said the Core is the only major new program the capital campaign will finance. Expansion generally interests donors more than supporting exisiting programs, which the campaign will concentrate on.
As antinuclearism becomes respectable, some antinuclear activists gravitate towards national politics, giving the previously localist movement a Washington focus. Antinuclear lobbyists have developed their own version of a moratorium--the nuclear phaseout. Phaseout to some people means no further expansion of the nuclear program, or even just a slowed rate...
But local residents say the controversy has made Harvard officials more aware of growing community opposition to Harvard expansion.
Jerry Falwell's explanation of his move to politics seems simple: "God wanted me to look beyond Lynchburg. We cannot be isolationists. We've got to have the world upon our hearts." Falwell is a fundamentalist. "The entire Bible," he insists, "from Genesis to Revelation, is the inerrant...