Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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A rapid expansion of American military might is fundamental to the foreign policy that Reagan and Haig are shaping. Some other fundamental principles: the U.S. must forge closer relations with its allies; in particular, it must persuade the NATO countries to cooperate with it in countering Soviet threats outside Europe...
At a nearby auditorium the Pope spoke of the need to harmonize "the values of science with the values of conscience." To many Pope watchers, it was far more powerful than his two previous major speeches as a world statesman, one to the United Nations General Assembly during his American...
Harvard's report to the community--Originally due more than a year ago, University officials have delayed this report pending a final city decision on guidelines to control University expansion. "It wouldn't make sense for us to put it out until; we know what the city is going to...
Nor is it coincidental that Lesley College, which has grown dramatically over the past ten years, forcing the departure of many families from the Oxford-Massachusetts Avenue neighborhood, is objecting to the efforts of certain city officials to "down-zone" the area and to take other action to prevent expansion...
Kennedy School administrators do, for the most part, seem to care about the education they provide. And, no doubt, they genuinely feel that showy expenditures--the new building, costly deans' receptions, and other expansion-related endeavors--do enhance the school's training. But until the K-School's Edifice Complex...