Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the city's water supply failed to keep pace with expansion, private industries, hotels and housing estates sank their own artesian wells into the water table on which the city rests. During the past 15 years, with more than 11,000 wells sucking the underground reservoir dry, the...
"There have been few such early sites uncovered--colonial expansion has usually covered or wiped them out," he said.
The Federal Reserve Board moved during the early summer to moderate the recovery because higher inflation remains a danger if the economy grows too fast. Concerned about rapid expansion of the money supply, the Reserve Board nudged interest rates up a notch. The benchmark prime rate that banks charge top...
The consequences of doing nothing about the deficit are ominous. Government borrowing will clash with the capital needs of private industry to keep interest rates high. The outcome may not be another recession but a continuation of what Feldstein called "the lopsided recovery," an expansion driven by consumption and Government...
These programs include the Program on the Profession, a study begun last year to investigate the nature and direction of the legal profession; a year-old series of teaching workshops; the expansion of clinical positions at the Legal Services Center in Jamaica Plain, an experimental section for first-year law...