Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Historians at Harvard share your enthusiasm for the recent successes of Afro-American Studies (staff editorial, November 19, 1993). The University has been strengthened and Chair Henry Louis Gates and his colleagues deserve our thanks. But I regret that you thought it useful to misrepresent the Department of History to...
^ "The expansion of trading markets is essential for our prosperity History has proven that isolationism is detrimental to this country."
He cited the pieces of his HUD strategy which are already in place as examples of the government's focus on the individual: the expansion of the earned-income tax credit, an extension of low income housing credits, the establishment of the national service program, the expansion of Head Start...
Part of the problem, of course, is that production growth has been far more sluggish than usual for the first 31 months of recovery; and this has been reflected in an equally slow reduction in unemployment -- down from 7.8% in June 1992 to 6.8% last month, but still far higher...
The History department has similar woes, though for different reasons. Infighting among the department leadership continues to prevent the expansion of its 20th-century American offerings. Despite the overwhelming interest demonstrated by concentrators. The University has ignored this problem and allowed the hiring of Americanists to languish.