Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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GREENSBORO, North Carolina: "They did their jobs. They faked nothing. They committed no fraud, no trespass or breach of duty," ABC attorney Bill Jeffress told jurors in opening the trial of "Prime Time Live" producers Lynn Dale and Susan Burnette, whose November 1992 story on improper food handling at Food...
With little fanfare, the Loewen Group and a handful of other large death-care companies are racing to buy up as many independent funeral homes as possible--not out of any desire to share the resulting economies of scale and cut the cost of funerals but rather to boost prices...
The first U.N. peacekeepers are dispatched to the Suez Canal: "As Secretary-General of the United Nations, [Dag] Hammarskjold holds a job whose very title carries overtones of impotence. Today, however, what was originally conceived of as the world's top civil-service berth shows promise of developing into an...
The increased volume is a factor in U.S. Shuttle's current expansion of its fleet, he said.
Even if Mobutu lasts that long, the integrity of his nation, a colonial creation that lashes together some 200 tribes across a region the size of Western Europe, is already at risk. Only Mobutu's will and wizardry have held the place together for so long. His style of rule...