Word: expansionist
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Just one day after China's Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing ended his visit to the U.S., another Asian leader arrived at the White House last week to warn Jimmy Carter that an expansionist, Soviet-backed Viet Nam threatens peace and stability in Southeast Asia. The new visitor was Premier Kriangsak Chomanan of Thai land, whose country has good reason to feel beleaguered...
...best known for producing rear bumpers for Studebakers. The report listed sales of $15.4 million, profits of $316,000 and a work force of about 600. The firm that year had a new chairman, a young Austrian immigrant named Charles G. Bluhdorn, who launched the company on an aggressive expansionist course. Today, under Bluhdorn's direction, G&W ranks 59th on the FORTUNE 500 list, with 1978 sales of $4.3 billion, earnings of $181 million, and more than 100,000 employees. Through its subsidiaries, the New York-based conglomerate produces movies (Saturday Night Fever, Grease) and TV series (Laverne...
...lands which belong to them but have been seized by Israel and for the right of the Palestinians to set up a state of their own, or by the actions of those who support these legitimate demands of the Arabs. It is those who support the aggressor, encouraging the expansionist cravings, that are acting contrary to the interests of detente in the Middle East...
...International Organizations concluded that Moon had intimate ties with South Korean President Park Chung Hee's regime, and that Moon acted under the direction of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA) on at least one occasion. Given the dubious political connections of Moon's movement as well as its expansionist goals, scholars who wish to participate in Moon-sponsored cultural activities should realize the ethical repercussions of their actions...
...hybrid of The Rainmaker and the collected works of Larry McMurtry (Hud. The Last Picture Show). He tells of two antagonistic small-time ranchers, a tomboy spinster (Fonda) and a good-natured World War II veteran (Caan), who reluctantly pool their resources to battle a takeover by an expansionist landowner (Robards). The villain, meanwhile, has problems of his own-an oil-company executive (George Grizzard) wants to plunder the cattle fields for crude. It is not difficult to guess what follows. Like every other so-called modern western, this one features a trusty old ranch hand (nicely played by Rich...