Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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A onetime cotton depot, Houston was the nation's fastest-growing major metropolitan area in the past decade. Population is up 70% since 1960, and since 1975 the city has led the nation in residential construction. Space for the sprawl is no problem because miles of prairie scrubland lie...
Yet fast-food executives insist that there is no need for pessimism. They concede that high interest rates have generally slowed expansion, but point out that profits are still growing at a respectable 15% to 20% a year. Indeed, for the third quarter McDonald's reported record earnings of...
...first thing that has to be done is to convince the Soviet Union that expansion is not feasible and probably the only way to do that is by upsetting one of their endeavors to organize a revolution in the Third World. That will give them the idea that expansionism is not as fruitful as they think it might be, and would create a real atmosphere for disarmament...
Andre Schleiffer '82: Yes, because I believe the Soviet Union is expanding, does have an interest in expanding, and the only way to stop this expansion is by giving some indication that if it continues conflict will be unavoidable. I think that there is a real possibility of the Soviet...
Three years ago, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a foundation established by the late billionaire, announced that it would open a major research laboratory in the Affiliated Hospital Center (AHC), a complex of three Harvard teaching hospitals in Boston. AHC has since changed its name to Brigham and Woman's...