Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The initial praise for Goetz's dramatic act starkly underscored an increasingly hard-line attitude toward crime in recent years. More than 1,500 citizen crime-fighting groups have sprung up in 38 states, determined to be "nosy neighbors" and serve as the eyes and ears of police. Local spending...
On balance, however, everyone seemed to feel that the expansion to twelve would be worth the sacrifices. As French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas put it, "This is the result of the political will of all the members to have Spain and Portugal join the Community."
Despite the expansion of its collections, the museum experienced a general decline after Eliot's death in 1926. His successor, A. Lawrence Lowell, displayed a general coolness toward the museum and refused to provide any funding beyond what was necessary for maintenance, said Janet Tassel, an historian of the museum...
The expansion of the playoffs to seven games--two more than the best-of-five format followed since 1969 was the chief topic during bargaining between the union and club owners on a new basic agreement. The old agreement, governing such items as free agency and the players' share of...
The Brezhnev Doctrine proclaimed in 1968 that the Soviet sphere only expands. The Reagan Doctrine is meant as its antithesis. It declares that the U.S. will work at the periphery to reverse that expansion. How? Like the Nixon Doctrine, it turns to proxies. Unlike the Nixon Doctrine, it supports not...