Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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It can hardly be called a boom, but Western Europe's recovery, still somewhat tentative only six months ago, is now taking root and slowly spreading. Healthy profits in many industries are turning out to be the best possible antidote to the fashionable Europessimism that only a few months...
There are other, more enduring questions. After five major wars in less than 40 years, how do 3.4 million Jews live in the midst of more than 150 million Arabs, many of whom remain sworn to Israel's destruction? Can a nation expand its borders in the pursuit of greater...
The big question is whether the employer sanctions would do much more than spur a great expansion of trade in false documents. Already, phony driver's licenses sell in Los Angeles barrios for $40 to $50 each. "Green cards," attesting that the bearer is an alien legally permitted to...
In the past six weeks, three of Kuwait's oil tankers have been attacked in the Persian Gulf as Iran, angered by Iraq's attacks on tankers carrying its oil, has taken out its frustrations on Iraq's Arab allies. With the expansion of the conflict, Kuwait...
Few subjects infuriate Argentine President Raúl Alfonsín more than what happened to the billions of dollars his country borrowed in the late '70s. Says he: "The foreign debt's most irritating feature for the Argentines is that the money was not converted into the...