Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Networks launch the biggest expansion in more than a decade
While nations have struggled with the twin scourges of swift inflation and slow economic growth, millions of people have lost their jobs. Steep interest rates have destroyed thousands of businesses. Countless companies have been unable to modernize obsolete factories. The promise of economic expansion, always the driving force of capitalism...
One of the oft forgotten axioms of international economics is that in a system of free trade, in which each nation sells what it can produce most cheaply, everyone stands to gain. The decades of record growth after World War II were also a time of rapid expansion of world...
Despite early successes in research and faculty grants, however, insufficient donations for buying space in the new building may alter plans for the program. Ira A. Jackson '70, associate dean of the K-School, says that because total expansion plans have been scaled down, the research centers will probably receive...
Lopez Portillo did not need many lessons. He launched Mexico upon a grandiose development program, spending billions of dollars on such huge development projects as a national agricultural production system and the first of 20 planned nuclear reactors. The number of federal bureaucracy employees in Mexico jumped from 1.2 million...