Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The pell-mell expansion of cities creates risks not just for their residents but for every human being. As cities grow, so does the demand for standardized, easily transportable foods. Farmers in the countryside respond to this demand by planting a narrower range of crops, which in turn increases the...
Ideally, it might be better to disperse humanity more evenly around the countryside. But people have flocked to cities for thousands of years, and the lure of the bright lights runs so deep that it cannot easily be overcome by government policies. With the world's population growing by nearly...
In normal times, the automakers would trim expenses, adjust to new market trends and wait for business to improve, but these are not normal times. While the U.S. is making a modest comeback in car sales, Europe and Japan show no signs of a turnaround. And none of the world...
That was only part of it. Eckart Werthebach, head of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, announced an expansion of his agency's surveillance of the far right into "a department that has never before existed in such a dimension." Chief federal prosecutor Alexander von Stahl took charge...
Though the expansion of surveillance and pressure on police to act decisively will almost surely help in cracking down on the right, some of the other measures taken by the authorities are dubious. The banning of extremist groups will probably mean little in practical terms. Most of those who commit...