Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Containment: a policy aimed at checking the expansion of a hostile power or ideology by political, economic or military means.
Growth. TIME's economists expect that expansion next year will be less rapid than this year, when the economy grew at an annual rate of about 6.5%, but they say growth will still be brisk. The board forecasts that the gross national product will increase by 4.5% in 1984...
It's a mayor's slot next time for Melvin the King And a real Union meal for the one from Peking. For Raymond L. Flynn, we can't help feeling queasy; His job is cut out, but it sure won't be easy. A trip to New York for...
A spokesman for the purchaser said that further expansion would not change the way that Steve's operates Ice cream will continue to be manufactured on the premises at each location, he explained.
On the other hand, the major diplomatic failures of the last half-century occurred when statesmen deviated from a pragmatic approach, like in the Cold War for example. In perhaps the best part of the book, Eban shows how the East-West conflict grew out of U.S. misperceptions of Soviet...