Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The past two decades of Square history have seen intermittent fights between residents and the University over Harvard's expansion into the city. Many residents have complained that the University grew at the expense of local neighborhoods.
Harvard Law School graduate and roast beef devotee Eric C. Stoller holds Elsie's responsible for the eventual expansion of his waistline.
-- Jeopardized projects ranging from new schools and courthouses to the $60 million expansion of an Anaheim stadium to keep the Los Angeles Rams football team from leaving the area.
Yeltsin responded by voicing fear that Europe was about to split again into hostile blocs, this time consisting of everybody else vs. Russia. Expansion of NATO, in his view, would push what many Russians still see as an anti-Moscow alliance right up against the borders of the old Soviet...
The big problem is one of psychology. Despite, or because of, current military and economic weakness, Russians of every political opinion yearn to see their country once again treated as the great power it historically has been. Instead, they think, it is being brushed aside. Russian fears of an expanded...