Word: expansionism
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In 1954 the Bureau of Mines began a massive expansion of the mine into the most secure shelter and command post scientific and military minds of the time could imagine. One of the architects of the project was Paul Russell, who headed the Bureau of Mines facility and later studied...
So the Cold War ended and the Japanese won? Fine by us. The ascendance of Japan as a non-military superpower is not unwelcome. Accompanied by a permanent seat on the UN security council and a new self-written constitution, as Karel van Wolferen proposed in The New York Times...
The rationales for their positions, while unstated in official communiques, are not secret. Germany wants to expand its power to the East by slicing up potential rivals, and France fears an expansion of Germany's influence over Eastern Europe. The cause of the EC's hemming and hawing on the...
Expansion Nixed
Yes, the capital-gains rate should be cut -- to ZERO! -- but only on future investments in newly issued stocks and bonds (and "founders' stock"). There would be no special break for real estate or art or gold, or for securities trading -- only the initial securities purchaser would get the break...