Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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In Boston, the Burger King fast-food chain, which employs 160,000 people nationwide, took the unusual step of advertising jobs on MTV, the cable rock-music channel, to attract young prospective workers into its management program. In the throes of a rapid expansion, Burger King felt a strong need...
In the tense, confrontational atmosphere which characterized the Vietnam era, 300 students seized control of University Hall in what they considered the most effective way to blast Harvard's support for the ROTC while protesting University expansion into Cambridge neighborhoods.
The threat posed by Iran has led the Reagan Administration to propose selling the Saudis $354 million worth of air and sea missiles. The White House last week sent formal notice of the sale to Congress, and now faces an uphill battle to head off expected disapproval of the deal...
But proponents of the amendment lauded it because they said it would provide a forum for public scrutiny of new developments while allowing developers opportunity for expansion.
Bader said the current policy is encouraging the "destruction of a culture" because it facilitates the expansion of corporate farming at the expense of family farming.