Word: expansionism
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Bill Clinton becomes President without the warrant of a depression that emboldened F.D.R. or the lift of economic expansion that energized L.B.J. Times are hard; they are not desperate. But it is the long shadow and the troubled legacy of the Great Society -- not its policy failures so much as...
Any economic losses incurred in the short term will be compensated in the long term with expansion from the recycling industry. In any case, Question Three regulations would not go into effect until 1996. Another plus is that the numerous options in the bill give the industries flexibility in complying...
The death penalty still bothers most of us. But if economic growth and the expansion of cultural freedoms made our predecessors more idealistic, economic stagnation and the divisive politics of Reaganism have made the current generation of college-age students less so.
The war hastened the already simmering Russian Revolution and the founding of the Soviet Union and, hence, that protracted standoff between vast swatches of the planet that came to be called the cold war. It foretold the beginning of the end of European overseas expansion. And the U.S., against many...
The state of the environment in the latter part of the next century will be determined largely by one factor: human population. If the species doubles its numbers by 2050, to nearly 11 billion, humanity may complete the devastation that accelerated so steeply in this century. Such unabated expansion in...