Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Until recently such an open challenge to the stern regime of General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte would have been unthinkable. A notoriously repressive dictator, Pinochet has regularly silenced his opposition with torture, killings and exile. In the 9½ years since he took power in the bloody coup that overthrew Marxist...
Aside from "The Rock" there are five other libraries, including a 14 floor science library. A five year $160 million fundraising drive has also bank-rolled a new construction spree which includes a new sports complex and performing arts center. Brown has also launched a separate major computer expansion project...
Perhaps the Yard is only another symptom of over-expansion: might it not be that the University has become the Cosmopolis of Spengler, a huge petrifact, whose inhabitants view it exclusively as the instrument of their individual advancement or pleasure? In that event, it would be useless to expect anyone...
City officials are so violently opposed to a planned expansion of the university into East Austin that they are ready to deny the school a precious Texas commodity--water--in order to make it modify its plans.
There has always been an enormous imperial drive from Russia. To think that this is only a consequence of Communist ideology is just mistaken. The greatest periods of expansion of the Russian empire happened under the tsars. Stalin was, so to speak, rather modest at the end of World