Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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In August, 1988, the city granted the school a certificate of occupancy, allowing students to attend classes there. But in September, next-door-neighbor Jean Brooks filed an appeal to the city to block further expansion and submitted the neighbors' petition. The city's Zoning Board of Appeal approved an...
In a sense, Guangdong can be viewed like the Soviet Union's Baltic states, the province's relative wealth representing a willingness to stretch the rules to fit whatever works rather than restrain expansion to fit the rules. Left alone, which it may not be, Guangdong will continue to provide...
"I would say the one complaint about hisadminstration is that the number of people in thedean's office seems to have multiplied more thanis really necessary," says Lee Professor ofEconomics Hendrik S. Houthakker. "I think he haspersonally overseen an undue expansion of thebureaucracy, and that becomes contrary to theHarvard tradition...
Citing expansion needs, Michael McIntvre and Daniel Moore have moved their Cambridge usedbook store from its 30 Plympton St. home of six years to 8 Mt. Auburn St.
Campeau had created problems for himself at a headlong pace. Even as he scooped up retailers, Campeau made plans to build dozens of big department stores. While he spun off such acquisitions as Brooks Brothers and Bonwit Teller to pay part of his $11 billion debt, he insisted that his...