Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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In WATER AND POWER, Pat O'Neill takes us even deeper into post-narrative. His is an abstract film in a rush -- a universe of images in 57 hurtling minutes. He can't wait for the moon to rise; with time-lapse photography he Frisbees it into the sky. He...
Upon his return from Vail, Gravink wrote a letter to Sununu at the White House, describing the expansion he wanted. Sununu passed the letter to the EPA and the Forest Service and followed up with what one well-informed Washington official described as "a lot of bullying and bluster" that...
An aide to Sununu denied that any pressure was exerted on Gravink's behalf. Yet according to Ned Therrien, acting supervisor of the White Mountain National Forest, "Sununu has called several times and asked for updates on the progress" on Loon Mountain's application. Therrien emphasizes that Sununu only pressed...
Lecturer in Architecture Jeremiah Eck blames the problem of preserving enough open space at Harvard on small construction sites and a general lack of room for expansion in the city.
The first tradition of American foreign policy, appropriately, is America first. It was often isolationist, as in George Washington's warning in his Farewell Address against permanent alliances. But it was not necessarily so. (Washington had been interested in westward expansion since colonial days.) Our interests might compel us to...