Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The state House of Representatives yesterday approved and sent to the Senate a bill that would allow Cambridge to regulate Harvard's expansion into surrounding residential neighborhoods.
When Carter announced the impost in March, he based his action on the 1962 Trade Expansion Act, which allows the President to limit imports to protect national security. But five Congressmen and a variety of industry and consumer groups brought suit, charging that since the fee would apply to gasoline...
When the New York Islanders first reached the National Hockey League's Stanley Cup playoffs in 1975, a scant three years after starting from scratch as an expansion team, hockey insiders dubbed the strong young squad "the team of the future." Fans all over Long Island sat back to...
Such weapons were needed to combat the sudden surge of Soviet expansion as World War II drew to a close. Angleton hardly seemed suited for the part: he aspired to be a poet, and his friend E.E. Cummings called him a "miracle of momentous complexity." But Angleton's poetic...
When Social Studies began 20 years ago, the concentration accepted about 15 students in each year. Last September, however, 72 sophomores entered the program, and Walzer predicted that in a few years about 300 students may be Social Studies concentrators. That expansion "will require substantial increases in budget," he said...