Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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But several city councillors criticized the hospital's continuing $60 million expansion project.
"I don't see how we could continue spending any money on the expansion of the hospital until we get a clear idea of what's happening in Washington," Councillor Michael A. Sullivan said.
The staff's editorial does not address the disturbing expansion of the administration's parietal role in students' affairs. Clearly, as a private institution, Harvard has the power to determine which organizations are officially sanctioned on campus.
The story of businessman Q, as reconstructed from police and court records, traces a prodigious feat of colonization and franchising. In Los Angeles, Q and his cohorts made their basic profits from cocaine bought at cross-border prices--typically about $15,000 a kilo. They cut the coke and ratcheted...
Backed by the CIA, army general Joseph-Desire Mobutu took over the Republic of the Congo in 1965 and later called himself Mobutu Sese Seko. In 1971 he renamed the country Zaire. Throughout his rule, Mobutu has dealt brutally with opponents, civilian and military. His country's mineral wealth and...