Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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But Venezuela's integration with the outside world makes it all the more vulnerable to what is happening there. Faced with staggering new energy costs, Third World and East European countries are asking for Venezuelan oil on credit or at a discount. The more poverty grows in Latin America and...
Question 4 would greatly relax state election laws governing the establishment of political parties, making it easier for for fringe candidates to find a place for themselves on the ballot. Such an expansion of the democratic process is clearly overdue in the state of Massachusetts. We support a YES vote...
Silber's business management of Boston University is also questionable. He managed the school's fantastic explosion by tripling tuition. Silber's political strategy for his expansion plan could be easily described as authoritarian; using secret police-like tactics, he cracked down on student protestors and tried to squelch student...
& The forces that propelled the expansion of the past decade are now pushing in the opposite direction. The U.S. and British economies are either in a recession or on the brink of one, and corporations are shrinking their office space. At the same time, developers are feeling the effects of...
Professional educators blanch at the movement's expansion, and as the trend increases, their concerns rise about the quality of such instruction. Bruce Wheeler, an industrial-arts teacher in Wilton, N.H., frets about his nephew Solon Sadoway's progress. "This is a hit-or-miss effort," he says. "If he...