Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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West Pointer Berry (class of 1948) suspects that the main reason for the incident has been the rapid expansion of the academy from 2,496 cadets to 4,417 during the turbulent decade from 1964 to 1974 that included Watergate and Viet Nam. In this period, Berry points out, American...
Manhattan Cable, which provides equipment and basic instruction to anyone who asks for it, airs some 800 hours of programming a month, including Chinese language movies, Boy Scout activities, League of Women Voters shows, block parties and a Bulgarian hour. (Only twelve of those hours went to Midnight Blue when...
Still, most economists forecast that inflation by year's end will be running at about 5% to 6%. Such a rate would be modest by the standards of recent years arid would not greatly dampen consumer optimism, especially if the current expansion in personal income continues to put more...
Hard Currencies. For the first time, the developing countries also pressed the Communist nations of Eastern Europe for concessions. The East Bloc has always argued that colonial expansion was the cause of the Third World's poverty and that the Communist nations thus were under no obligation to make...
Until fairly recently, the French did not take the telephone very seriously. Successive governments scrimped on expansion; from 1935 to 1968 almost no new equipment was installed. As late as 1962, the French Secretary of State for Posts and Telecommunications blithely dismissed the phone as a "gimmick." Charles de Gaulle...