Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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In terms of economic development, it would "encourage new job opportunities" and the expansion of the tax base through private development.
But if the Old West is back, it's not necessarily the West of old. Call it political correctness or a long-overdue historical corrective, but Hollywood's picture of the West has a grubbier, less celebratory, more multicultural look this time around. The moral verities are not so clear...
NAFTA is important, however, primarily for reasons going beyond its own economic effects. Its rejection by the U.S. could topple a much bigger domino: a proposed agreement to promote freer trade among the more than 100 members of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade could die. That would abort...
These are not academic questions. Bill Clinton has called a NATO summit to convene in Brussels next Jan. 10, to plan the organization's march eastward. The meeting, Secretary of State Warren Christopher told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week, will "formally open the door to an evolutionary process...
This booming two-way commerce reflects a recent transformation that has brought free markets to Mexico. The impact extends far beyond border towns and deep into the American heartland, which sends Mexican buyers everything from soybeans to Chevrolets. Since Mexico began lowering its trade barriers, annual U.S. exports to the...