Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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President Clinton is writing letters to Boris Yeltsin, trying to convince him that NATO's expansion to the east will not threaten a "cold peace."
Private institutions no longer have true freedom of conscience on this divisive and important issue. At this point in history, pro-choice forces should be pleased with their success. But if the past is any indicator, a new and ridiculous demand for the expansion of abortion will soon be on...
That still isn't far enough out to give a direct measure of the Hubble-the cosmic rate of expansion. But M100 is part of a huge group of galaxies known as the Virgo cluster. The M100 calculation gave the astronomers the distance to Virgo, and they used that number...
Neutrinos with mass might help solve the dark-matter problem and thus provide support for the inflation theory. But in some ways that would just make the crisis in cosmology worse. The more dark matter there is in the universe, the harder it is to explain the new findings made...
But particle physicists later found that a cosmological constant arose naturally from their own theories. And now cosmologists may need it to get out of the age crisis. If the constant has the right value, then cosmologists can keep inflation. The cosmos would have started out in a long period...