Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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For a half-century, expansion has been the byword of American higher education. More course offerings, bigger and better-paid faculties, new graduate schools and elaborately equipped laboratories, more diverse student bodies. The emphasis on bigger and better helped make American universities the envy of the world and their degrees...
There is also the larger question of what is to become of the more than 170 Jewish settlements already in place in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Quite a few of those have been erected or expanded since the Bush Administration launched its peace initiative last March. According to...
We plan a significant expansion of activity in the spring by introducing an undergraduate component to the program.
"He's really a visionary," says Arthur Levitt Jr., former head of the American Stock Exchange and a Guggenheim board member. "But he's breaking some eggs in the art community." Krens' business-school jargon and management style offend many in the traditionally genteel, nonprofit world of museums. Says Hilton...
The museum's spiral-shaped building on Fifth Avenue will reopen in May after two years of restoration and expansion. The $48 million project will increase exhibition space by two-thirds, even though critics charge that a new, 10- story annex designed by Gwathmey & Siegel detracts from the Wright building...