Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Concern over the Fogg's future financial standing led the Corporation earlier this week to put a hold on the expansion plans. Corporation members were particularly worried about construction bids for the new building that were "substantially over" the original projection of $5.9 million, Seymour Slive, director of the Fogg...
Slive added that he and members of the Fogg staff will try to devise a new plan for the expansion, which may include minor changes in design, to resubmit to the Corporation in a month.
More troubling is the realization that under questioning, even the most sophisticated Angel will recite stories of gang wars won, bullets whizzing overhead and knife wounds to the abdomen. We should certainly wonder whether Sliwa's expansion program will attract public-spirited kids concerned about purse snatchers or toughs who...
Ironically, the apparent effort to phase out the association with Kennedy comes just when the school has taken two far-sighted steps of which Kennedy would have been proud. Aware of community dissatisfaction with the proposed site of the school's new wing, administrators sat down with local leaders and...
The "nation of immigrants" arrived homeless. From the Pilgrims on, they carved their shelter, their human architecture out of wilderness. Lincoln was born in a frontier hovel. Later generations crowded ten to a squalid room in Lower East Side ghettos. Yet Americans operated on a premise of expansion and progress...