Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Here's why. Things aren't just good for the Indians, which went to the World Series last year; they are about as good as they can get, and the club will tell you as much. That leaves but one direction to go: down. And what's really troublesome is...
Certainly her life was unpredictable. Even her death--in 1971, at the age of 87 in her private quarters at the Ritz Hotel--was a plush ending that probably would not have been predicted for Chanel by the nuns in the Aubazine orphanage, where she spent time as a ward...
America at the century's dawn was a billboard of extravagant promise. And two new art forms, movies and the popular song, formed the flying wedge of American hegemony, sending a message of optimism and expansion all over the world. The movie narrative with its cozy moral, the 32-bar...
The reasons for this expansion are unclear: some cite the initiation of Council term-bill fees for student group funding; others cite a decline in House life resulting from randomization.
In January 1997, College officials announced that Apley Court would be used as a first-year dorm to allow for the expansion of the first-year class by 30 students.