Word: expansionism
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When St. Petersburg built the Suncoast Dome in 1987, it aimed to be the first Florida city to attract a major league baseball team. The recession didn't stanch enthusiasm for the project. As assistant city manager Rick Dodge notes, in what sounds like a bow to Clintonomics: "Cities that...
The disclosures led Phar-Mor to lay off 100 of its 800 headquarters employees and could brake the chain's headlong expansion. Beginning with a single store a decade ago, Phar-Mor grew to 305 outlets in 33 states and employs 23,000 workers.
Hicks said the act has many other effects onfinancial aid. The act's expansion of federalguaranteed student loans programs may increaseannual borrowing by all Harvard students under theprograms by as much as $10 million. StudentsUniversity-wide already borrow about $40 million ayear under the programs, Hicks said.
The next 500 years proved an uplifting time for the Catalans. They were years of economic expansion and political self-assertion. Before Columbus ever sailed for the New World, the allied kingdoms of Catalunya and Aragon already possessed a far-ranging Mediterranean empire. And in what was to become a...
Power abhors a vacuum. At the close of the 7th century A.D., Iberia had almost become one. Its central administrative order, that of the Roman Empire, had long since dissolved. Over it, Visigothic laws and Christian rites had been superimposed. But as a political entity, Iberia was on the verge...