Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The Boston Redevelopment Authority yesterday approved Massachusetts General Hospital's (MGH) plans for a $17.5 million expansion of the hospital's research facilities.
Two civic groups which earlier opposed the expansion project gave their support to MGH yesterday after the hospital agreed to modify its original plan.
General Lucas seems confident that the guerrillas can be beaten, but more than a few obstacles stand in the commander's way. By the conventional wisdom of counterinsurgency, where a 10-to-1 superiority of conventional forces is necessary to defeat guerrilla groups, the 14,000-member Guatemalan army...
And when those hill people in 1861 seceded from Virginia, herself seceded from the Union of Abraham Lincoln, William Bell would be offered a commission by the Restored Government of Virginia, by his own governor Francis Boreman and the legislature that met at Wheeling, despite the eye he had lost...
--The new leverage city officials gained with the passage of an anti-expansion ordinance that for the first time in 340 years restricts University growth. Under the law, if Harvard wishes to expand in the future it will need the permission of local government; "it will mean the end of...