Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Way. They are perfectly capable of an off night: in the month of March, Chicago lost one game by 32 points to the New York Knicks, who aren't exactly world beaters, and another game to the Toronto Raptors, one of the expansion teams that have diluted the talent in...
But California can't arbitrarily lower its cost of labor or real estate. Intel, the world's largest maker of microchips, chose Albuquerque, New Mexico, as the site for a new $1.3 billion semiconductor plant, stiffing its own headquarters location in pricey Silicon Valley. New Mexico sweetened the deal further...
And if neutrinos do have even a tiny bit of mass, their great numbers would make them a major component of the so-called dark matter that astronomers believe constitutes most of the substance of the universe. Dark matter has never been seen directly, but its powerful gravitational influence is...
ARCHITECTS GENERALLY ARE dour people. Since they're half professionals, half artists, neither side of them is ever entirely content. But Rem Koolhaas, the Dutch-born architect-prophet whom today's young architects most want to grow up to be, is smiling. He's thinking about the deep, vision-supporting...
Virtue may be its own reward, but cold, hard cash never hurts. Moralcrat Bill Bennett wandered into a Las Vegas casino after giving one of his standard America-is-going-to-hell-in-a-handbasket speeches, when bingo, the Book of Virtues author hit the jackpot. A sheepish Bennett wouldn...