Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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It's too soon to tell how much difference the sound bites and charm campaigns are making. With the barbecue came a promise from Helms not to block the Senate from voting on a treaty banning chemical weapons. Albright persuaded Primakov to drop an objection on NATO-troops levels, which...
WASHINGTON, D.C: Shades of Boutros-Boutros Ghali. The U.S. insists that the first round of NATO expansion include just three countries: Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic. "The United States position is firm," said White House press secretary Mike McCurry. Though most NATO members would prefer to include Romania and...
The dissidents are most vocal about a corporate-expansion strategy that they claim has flooded some markets with stores. "I can put up with a Burger King but not with another McDonald's down the road," says Bob Srygley, a consortium member based in Monticello, Ark. Complains LuAnn Perez, whose...
The expansion push illustrates the company's dilemma: McDonald's needs more stores to dominate trading areas, increasing the chances that a hungry consumer will head for the Arches. But the more stores that go up, the harsher the economics becomes. The company had to develop a program to compensate...
While Russian President Boris Yeltsin made the best of his agreement to go along with an expansion of NATO, the theatrical sigh he heaved before signing was not entirely playacting. The fact is that Russia can consult with a growing NATO, but Russia is left out. So are several other...