Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Heller took over as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers at the start of the Kennedy Administration, the U.S. was just beginning to climb out of a slump. Fearing the recovery would be insufficient, Heller developed the idea of measuring the economy's performance not against past figures...
In 1827 Massachusetts led the way to universal education by becoming the first state to require towns with 500 or more families to build high schools. Now it is showing the way to universal child care. Aided by a booming economy, the state has worked out a program with employers...
Humorist Calvin Trillin at Beloit College, Beloit, Wis.: I have divided up the United States into two sections. One section is the part of the U.S. that had major league baseball before the Second World War. That's the ancien U.S., and the rest of the U.S. is the rest...
But there are few apparent congressional qualms about the further expansion of minority set-asides. A Defense authorization act, which took effect this month, calls upon the Pentagon to strive toward awarding 5% of all contracts, as much as $7 billion a year, to minority-owned small businesses. A laudable...
For better or worse, Harvard's expansion--in this case, into the heart of Harvard Square--will set the business and residential climate for years to come. It seems only fair, then, that Cambridge taxpayers, lawmakers, and businessmen be informed about whether these land purchases are mere investments or whether...