Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Keynes, however, did not believe that deficits were necessary in periods of economic expansion. Nonetheless, the U.S. has run a deficit in both good and bad economic times for 20 out of the last 21 years. Conservative economists, and even some liberal ones, have long warned that inflation or recession...
We take it for granted that what is good and works for us can be the same for others. Perhaps But we must not forget that others have to work within constraints placed upon them by millenia-old traditions--in all their enchanting beauty and painful inertia--and by often...
Ignorant of the details of the limited, one-time art sale proposal, an organization of prominent museum directors lumped Live. Bok and Harvard together and publicly lambasted them as villains willing to auction off masterpieces to pay for plumbing and wiring. This well-intentioned but clumsy interference apparently gave Bok...
Regardless of who introduced the possibility of selling art it seems clear that pressure from the Corporation made the scheme unavoidable. Bok is using a problem he and his cohorts nurtured as an excuse not to move ahead with the expansion. Ironically, people close to the committee searching for Slive...
To salvage what is left of the money pledged to improve the Fogg and to reassure scholars and patrons that the University has not forgotten its proud heritage of leadership in the fine arts, Bok must clarify his reasons for killing the expansion plan and they allow museum officials to...