Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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It is still too early to determine the permanence of the metamorphosis created by Deng's reforms over the past five years, and where it will end. The only indisputable indicators are economic: an average annual increase in agricultural production of 7.9% since 1978; a spurt in rural per capita...
Another neighborhood group opposes the hospital's expansion for different reasons. The construction would cause "catastrophic problems in parking and traffic" in the area, said John Brode '52, president of the Neighborhood 10 Association.
More Growth Abroad. The U.S. has been the engine of expansion for the world during the past two years. Other countries, especially those in Western Europe, and Japan, should now stimulate their economies and share the burden. Such action would boost their imports and lower the U.S. trade deficit. Foreign...
The years following the founding club's first permanent home saw an unprecedented expansion of the Varsity Club. In the days before the House system, the club was located in more or less the center of the campus. Football players are their training meals at the club and members of...
Commentators like James J. Kilpatrick toss out the phrase to register contempt for a federal complex preoccupied with its own navel. William Safire says the phrase connotes something "of interest to tea-leaf readers of Washington goings-on but (is) strictly a yawner to the World Out There." Author Ben...