Word: expansionism
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The real question today is whether progress has built-in limits. Environmentalists argue that the earth will not support indefinite economic expansion along the old lines. Reports of global warming, damage to the ozone layer and long-term atmospheric shifts caused by deforestation raise further doubts about unlimited growth. Even...
The idea of progress loses all meaning if progress no longer implies the democratization of affluence. It was the prospect of universal abundance that made progress a morally compelling ideology in the past. According to the old way of thinking, the productive forces unleashed by industrialism generated a steadily rising...
I know about the history of the pilgrims, the settlement of the 13 colonies and the American Revolution. Yet how many American students know about the history of expansion in the Southwest, the discrimination against Mexicans in public schools and the social, economic and political exclusion of this group when...
We should start discussing the reasons for Columbus' trip to America. He was not on a noble excursion to search for new lands and different peoples. In Europe, it was the period of expansion. The Pope had just divided the world between the Spanish and Portuguese. Columbus was looking for...
DiCenso's largest concern with an expansion isthat a change could jeopardize his establishment'shigh standard of quality.