Word: expansionism
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In horse racing and boxing, experts will point out that a strong start does not mean a strong finish. China is a case in point. Its GDP has grown at a rate of about 10% a year for a decade. The government has done whatever it needed to do to...
The growth of Wahhabi institutions in traditionally Barelvi parts of Pakistan is not limited to Muridke. Punjab province has seen an explosion of radical mosques, madrasahs and schools, many around the southern cities of Bahawalpur and Multan. A resident of Bahawalpur describes a visible expansion of jihadi infrastructure, unchecked by...
But, when the lights came up I remembered that I had gotten such access to cover the expansion Boston Blazers, one of twelve National League Lacrosse teams trying to gain footing in a crowded U.S. sports market. Despite generous helpings of thunder sticks, the few thousand fans below me did...
“I think the most important thing is that the league finds cities where fans will support the team,” he says. “Everyone talks about growing, but it’d be better to have 12 or 13 teams in good venues as...
There will be no starving artists at Harvard. Just over a week after University officials announced that the endowment—the largest in higher education—fell a precipitous 22 percent in a four-month period, the University-wide Task Force on the Arts called for ambitious plans...