Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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I soon found out the answer to Question #1: The Titans were an expansion team in the Minor League Football System, where the coaches are barely paid, the players aren't paid at all and the general managers answer their own phones. I was assigned to the Titans' first game...
Originally, the Republicans presented themselves as a third-party alternative to the two dominant national parties, the Democrats and the dying Whigs. The Republicans wanted to stop the expansion of slavery, a platform the Democrats opposed and the Whigs were too timid to champion.
Houston's bargain-price land and labor have lured dozens of companies, including small steel mills, toolmakers and clothing manufacturers. The cost of office space, at $15 per sq. ft. (compared with $43 in Manhattan), is among the lowest in the U.S., and the median $69,000 price for a...
Under the terms of a 1973 state environmental regulation aimed at reducing air pollution, Cambridge was required to freeze expansion of commercial parking facilities. Since then, however, the number of spaces has jumped from 3500 to 18,000--an increase city officials maintained was allowable.
The purpose of the neighborhood forum called for by the leaders of four neighborhood associations ["Neighborhoods From Anti-Harvard Group," June 6, 1990] is to promote an informed public discussion on the implications of Harvard's expansion for the future of Cambridge. Our call for a forum was issued in...