Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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14. Expansion teams usually contain very unmemorable talent, but occasionally a player goes on to stardom. The Seattle Pilots, for example, traded away a young outfielder named Lou Pinella. For five points each,
Robert H. Scott, vice-president for administration, attributed the subcontracting of most of the graduate dining halls to the "expansion over the past 10 years of the number of good, high-quality catering firms."
Regarding that last point, Tom Landry, the only man to coach the Cowboys since the National Football League awarded Dallas an expansion franchise 24 years ago, sounded skeptical. "I don't think anything is ever the same," Landry said. A model owner, Murchison was patient in the beginning and...
Reagan Administration officials insisted that the sudden growth was not worrisome. Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige called it "a temporary acceleration in the expansion." Concurred Martin Feldstein, the President's chief economic adviser: "I'm not worried about overheating at this time."
All the elements of a familiar scenario were back on center stage of U.S. foreign policy. Not long ago, the setting was Lebanon. This time it was the scarred landscape of El Salvador. As it has so often before, the Reagan Administration was rattling sabers as a means of drawing...