Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Indeed, Greenspan, 61, will need to be one. The summer's respite can last only so long before the Fed nominee will have to deal with a flare-up among the many long-term economic woes the U.S. faces. America's giant twin deficits, in trade and the federal budget...
To exploit that market, software houses are busy developing adult-oriented games that are more sophisticated than Pac-Man and Donkey Kong and can be played as easily on a keyboard as with a joy stick. Programmer Crawford's current best seller, for example, is Mindscape's Balance of Power...
Gorbachev will also be seeking better relations with non-Communist countries in a trip to Latin America that may occur later this year. That would make him the first Soviet leader ever to visit mainland Latin America. As in Asia, he is thus presenting the U.S. with a new type...
Gorbachev's ability to redirect Soviet foreign policy will thus partly depend on the success of his domestic reforms. If the drive for economic efficiency leads the Soviets to permit a greater degree of internal freedom, the pressure for foreign expansion could diminish. Though doubtful that this is in the...
Is there, then, any reason to believe that Gorbachev's talk of "mutual security" is more credible? In theory at least, there is one significant difference. The Khrushchev-Brezhnev doctrine proclaimed that the armed truce between the superpowers did not mean the end of the global "war" between Communism and...