Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The creation of a faculty committee will draw professors into public service in an official capacity for the first time. While no professors even commented on the proposal when it was discussed at a Faculty meeting, we would be very surprised if none volunteered their services for this excellent cause...
The campaign's focus is on improving existing resources, as opposed to further expansion
Rising interest costs will also slow the expansion of small companies, which generate lots of jobs but because of their size must borrow from banks at more than the prime rate. No sooner had the Fed moved last week than many banks boosted their primes from 7.75% to 8.5%. That...
You can, that is, as long as you know the rate of expansion. Formally known as the Hubble constant, this expansion factor is calculated by measuring the distance from our galaxy to other galaxies (something difficult to do) and determining how fast that distance is increasing (an easier task). Scientists...
The space telescope managed to spot Cepheids in M100, a particularly distant galaxy in the Virgo cluster, which enabled the Hubble scientists to estimate how far the cluster is from earth. According to their report in the current Nature, M100 is 56 million light-years away, and the Hubble constant...