Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Twenty years ago, the main goal of two-year community colleges was preparing students for eventual transfer to four-year state universities. They could get a start on higher education at bargain prices while living at home. Since then, the number of these schools just across the street or down...
The fundamental question that NewsHour must answer, for PBS stations that resisted the expansion and for audiences who liked it as it was, is why the producers gambled with a proven success. MacNeil admits to having felt personally "confined" by the old format. Says he: "The half hour had a...
Whenever the outgoing Prime Minister's name was mentioned from the speaker's podium, the noisy crowd of Herut loyalists erupted with cheers of "Begin, Begin." But as the long night of ballot counting passed, the name Shamir began to be heard more often. By 1:40 a.m...
In recent years Kerzner has eyed the U.S. for expansion. He failed, though, in an attempt earlier this year to build a $250 million hotel-casino in Atlantic City. New Jersey residents opposed to South African racial policies persuaded city officials to block the project. Kerzner's newest scheme...
But as the station added programs and personnel, costs swelled as well. By itself, this might not have posed a serious problem. Unfortunately, just as NPR was gearing up to take the airwaves by storm, a certain Californian was readying himself for a personal assault on the nation's capital...