Word: expansionist
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...battles at Ouadi-Doum and Faya-Largeau handed Libyan Strongman Colonel Muammar Gaddafi one of the most ignominious defeats of his 18-year rule. State-run Chadian radio hailed the capture of the 12,500-ft. airstrip at Ouadi-Doum as the "beginning of the end of Gaddafi's expansionist dreams." The debacle not only delivered a near fatal blow to Libya's occupation of northern Chad but also damaged Gaddafi's standing at home, where Libyans are already grumbling about a sickly economy that is suffering from the slump in oil prices...
...really matter, and that we can sit behind a palisade of 10,000 nuclear warheads and not care who controls Central America. But the main opposition case is different. It does matter, say the Democrats. And the Sandinistas, they concede in speech after speech, are indeed Marxist-Leninist, expansionist, and pro-Soviet. But they can be contained by American power...
...they chose to conduct the first protest in the latest round of outbreaks on Dec. 9. The date is a revered one: 51 years ago, during the "Dec. 9 movement" of 1935, thousands of students took to the wintry streets of Peking and other Chinese cities to protest the expansionist designs of Japan, which had established a puppet state in Manchuria. The ) demonstrations helped weaken the government of Chinese Leader Chiang Kai-shek and paved the way for the comeback of Communist forces after the historic Long March of 1934-35. Many of the young demonstrators later became officials...
...Soviet Union has been expansionist throughout history and will continue to expand because, "that which stops growing begins to rot," Ulam said quoting a Soviet official...
...account holders never had an opportunity to panic over their money. The FDIC will pay First Interstate $72 million to take over the accounts and assume $1.2 billion in First National loans. The deal should turn out to be a profitable plum for First Interstate's expansionist chairman, Joseph J. Pinola, whose company already owns 22 banks in twelve Western states...