Word: expansionism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
The main changes that would come from the proposed expansion, which has been criticized by neighborhood residents for its effect on other area hospitals and is currently pending state approval, would be a renovation of the hospital's crowded patient rooms and an expansion of its obstetric and psychiatric services...
As he cited the examples of disabled Bostonians blocking MBTA construction and demanding that handicapped access ramps be installed, and of Chinatown residents resisting the expansion of a medical center in their neighborhood, the audience broke into applause and calls of approval.
To buttress its case, the agency has placed in evidence voluminous documents that spell out details of the family business never before made public. They indicate that the holdings acquired by Newhouse, the son of poor Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, have grown into America's biggest family-owned...
The Reagan Administration came to power dominated by hedgehogs determined to oppose the "one big thing" of Soviet military power and expansion. It tended to Infer Soviet control of whatever the United States government didn't like, for example the nuclear freeze movement, the Sandinistas, or Muammar Qaddafi. And since...
Saundra Graham, first a city councilor in 1972, gained attention in 1970 when she interrupted a Harvard commencement ceremony, protesting the University's real estate expansion and dislocation of Cambridge residents.