Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The most ominous aspect of the current slump is its global reach. Even during the severe 1973-75 recession that racked industrialized nations, growth in developing countries, such as Brazil, South Korea and Singapore, continued to move ahead. The thirst of those countries for imports from machine tools to tractors...
The order--one of several passed by the council in an attempt to limit institutional expansion in the Sparks St. neighborhood more than a year ago--had been passed without proper authority, City Councilor David Sullivan said yesterday.
WITH SUCH dexterity and literary aplomb, the author justifies another Whitman biography. Though the first was written in 1850, even before Leaves of Grass, and many have followed, Kaplan's biography creates the density of Whitman's life in contemporary terms and with the aid of new materials--previoulsy unavailable...
"This is a serious setback for the community," David Sullivan added. "The Summer Rd. case has become a symbol of neighborhood attempts to resist Harvard's expansion," he said.
"In the midst of this whole struggle against ROTC, Harvard expansion, the war," he says, "the CRR was trying to decide which individuals merited a suspension, which a 'suspended suspension.' We saw these hearings as an attempt to get bogged down on the particulars of whether an account was factual...