Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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But despite the news, many fear that the region's decade-long expansion is coming to an end. "It certainly looks like people were overly optimistic about the Southeast Asian economies," says Baumohl. "They pegged their currencies close to the U.S. dollar, but they didn't have the same strong...
Your article on whether this is the the best U.S. economy ever [BUSINESS, July 28] was interesting, but history has not been kind to the view that the stock-market Crash of October 1929 ended the Roaring Twenties. The National Bureau of Economic Research, the organization that dates the business...
"After the Dunster House deaths, the news office could have adopted the line that every institution has troubled students and Harvard is, alas, no exception, instead they chose to propagate the idea that the student didn't appear to have any troubles and the tragedy had, therefore, no explanation," Thernstrom...
Not long ago, scientists would never have relied on such a ragtag band, or such low-rent equipment, to do their fieldwork. But lately that's changed. With the contraction of federal science budgets and the expansion of the World Wide Web, private research is going decidedly public. From astronomy...
NATO's expansion toward Russia's borders is a provocative act that proves the West's cold war mentality is still very much alive [WORLD, July 14]. How would Americans feel if Russia entered into a broader military alliance with Mexico and stationed troops and equipment south of the Rio...