Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the Soviet military challenge has to be met with better military deterrence, the broader, longer-range Western response must be political as well. Soviet expansion has been made possible by an increased military capacity, but it is also the result of a breakdown in the relationship known as d...
An anemic recovery should begin some time during the summer of 1981, but growth for the year as a whole is unlikely to be higher than 1.5%. Said Eckstein: "Sizable growth in 1981 is almost impossible." Thus the economy will remain at a virtual standstill for the third consecutive year...
Martin S. Feldstein, a Harvard professor and president of the National Bureau of Economic Research, was worried that if the Reagan Administration is successful in fostering faster economic growth, this would lead to new demands for higher wages and still more inflation. He argued that only the slow business expansion...
* prevent any expansion at all into most residential neighborhoods of the city; and
Sullivan, who had been critical of earlier proposals for allowing city institutions too many loopholes, said the latest draft, by banning outright expansion into a number of neighborhoods, "makes residential areas significantly more secure."