Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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A statistician from the University of Chicago will join the Statistics Department, marking a key step in the expansion of one of Harvard's smallest departments.
The Graduate School of Design (GSD) is beginning discussions which will probably lead to a major expansion of the school's programs to broaden its academic scope and help alleviate its recent financial problems, officials said this week.
Administrators say that the faculty shortage has hampered expansion and some of the proposed programs may have to be run jointly with other schools to draw on their resources.
NOT ALL observers reject the Sullivan principles as useless. Those who maintain that the principles have been effective in promoting some change fall generally into two groups. One group believes that the principles as they are presently applied have done all that can be expected of their limited purview. Further...
What were Saddam-Hossein's reasons for attacking Iran? Certainly, the Iraqi president hoped to take advantage of the political turmoil in Iran and the chaotic state of the Iranian army--most of its ablest generals were purged after the Shah's ouster--to settle an old border dispute. But...