Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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A. There is technical progress, but this is not the same thing as the progress of humanity as such. In every civilization this process is very complex. In Western civilizations -- which used to be called Western-Christian but now might better be called Western-Pagan -- along with the development of...
It has been almost a given among experts for some time that part of the challenge to the U.S. and its allies is to bring global Communism in its decline to a soft landing rather than let it crash and burn. American politicians and statesmen have understood as much, at...
By the 1830s, the prosperous Cherokee farmers of North Carolina and Georgia had leaders educated in white universities and a written constitution recognized by the U.S. But they stood in the way of white expansion, so they were driven from their homes and herded along what came to be called...
What has increased the publishing industry's appetite for fresh manuscripts is a steady, decade-long expansion in the market for hard-cover best sellers. With their combined 2,100 outlets, Waldenbooks and B. Dalton have created a vast distribution system for general-interest hardcovers. The Book Industry Study Group...
"Harvard in 1969 must have felt like the center of the universe," Pauley said, referring to the student strike that year in which students stormed University Hall to protest University expansion into Cambridge, the presence of Reserve Officers Training Corps on campus and the Vietnam War.