Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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But for all Mitterrand's talk of decentralization, his economic policies seem to promise instead a significant expansion of government. His employment plan, for example, would create a minimum of 210,000 state-financed jobs over the next year at an estimated cost of $2.2 billion. Another 950,000...
The Cambridge City Council Monday sent to its ordinance committee a plan that, if adopted, would strictly limit the expansion of Harvard and other non-profit institutions into surrounding residential neighborhoods.
The draft sent by the Planning Board leaves intact controversial "institutional overlay" districts that Harvard and MIT officials said they feared might become "psychological barriers" to any expansion at all.
DIED. Jules Stein, 85, ophthalmologist turned show business entrepreneur who as the founder and president of the Music Corporation of America guided its growth from a small band-booking agency into a billion-dollar entertainment empire; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. Stein, who helped pay his way through...
The Corporation also abstained on several other proposals, involving U.S. corporate expansion in Chile and an investigation of disputed herbicides--including an ingredient of the disputed Agent Orange--which had been approved by the ACSR. The string of abstentions disappointed some ACSR members.