Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The same anguished question might be asked by today's voters of the Democrats who propose to capture the White House next year. Unlike the ballplayers on that woeful expansion team of a quarter-century ago, the Democratic candidates were supposed to be slick, blooded pros who could project an...
"Some experts argue that it is in our [U.S.]interest to have a revived economy, while othersbelieve that if the economy revives, there will bea base for military expansion," Kramer said
He also ran two departments that have made the Harvard name into an epithet for residents of the world immediatly outside: the Harvard Planning Department, which directs the University's expansion in ways that sometimes sacrifice other people's neighbor-hoods; and the Co-Generation Management Company, which runs Harvard...
IN A letter to Jefferson in 1788, Madison expressed another danger inherent in a bill of rights--that it would be interpreted statically, preventing the gradual expansion of people's rights with the passage of time. As a result, the rights of future generations likely would be constrained by the...
Under the hard-driving Abdic, Agrokomerc grew from a tiny milk-processing plant to a conglomerate with 13,500 employees, 1985 sales of $183 million, and products ranging from chicken parts to frozen dough. The rapid expansion transformed the firm's hometown, Velika Kladusa, from an impoverished peasant village to...