Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Congress also faces an election year and seems ready to embark on the greatest frenzy of antidrug votes since the last election year, 1986. The Senate unanimously approved an amendment to the annual budget resolution that would provide for a $2.6 billion expansion of the Government's antidrug | efforts. In...
The struggle has become more desperate than ever in 1988, with the five-year economic expansion losing momentum. Few economists predict an outright recession this year, but the long-running consumer spending spree is expected to taper off considerably. While consumers seem to have taken the stock-market crash in...
Many smaller chains are going on expansion binges to hold their own with the big boys. Zayre, with 362 department stores, has bought or opened 750 specialty outlets, including such chains as HomeClub and T.J. Maxx. Woolworth has moved into higher-priced markets by buying such specialty chains as Foot...
Expansion of the program is certainly possible, although not likely this year, Vroomen said. The men of the First Church Shelter form only a small portion of the total homeless population in Cambridge.
The President's attempts to scale back court and legislative expansion of civil rights guarantees is as inappropriate in the 1980s as it would have been in the 1960s. Discrimination suits continue to be an effective means of vindicating the victims of prejudice, guaranteeing for all equal protection under the...