Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Or, more properly, "SOX LOSE." The Red Sox haven't won a World Series since 1918, and this rankles the New England soul. Several expansion teams have won the World Series, but the Sox? Never.
The grand old game is still America's game, and it is still growing. Expansion teams in formerly baseball-less cities and new ballparks such as Orioles Park at Camden Yards have helped to rekindle interest in the game and, in some cities, boost stadium attendance to record levels.
Nowhere is Murdoch rushing ahead more rapidly than in Europe, where his expansion of BSkyB is part of a slew of new ventures. Partners include Britain's National Transcommunication Ltd., a research facility that will help him develop video compression, and Cellnet, a cellular-phone firm that will team up...
Biogen Inc. proposed the tax break to the council in a petition outlining plans for a 130,000 square-feet expansion. In exchange for the tax break, the company said it will work in conjunction with city agencies to hire as many Cantabrigians as possible for jobs created from the...
The final factor that is bound to curtail indefinite expansion is the natural law that insists the built-in cost of growth is change. That, of course, is what the natives resent most of all. As a longtime advocate of managed growth, Lamm, for one, is worried that Westerners with...