Word: expansionist
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...objections to ROTC units at Harvard are based on opposition to the American government's policies in Vietnam and other nations in the underdeveloped world. Because we see this policy as an expansionist and counter-revolutionary one, our objections to ROTC are definitely political and go beyond what Colonel Pell rightly calls "academic/administrative issues" such as merely depriving ROTC of course credit. The "right" to be trained by ROTC as an officer in the United States Armed Forces is an opportunity, in Colonel Pell's words, to "stand at the head of a platoon of 44 other young Americans...
There are already a few signs that the expansionist strategy is taking hold...
...Bronk, 70, the research center became a university as well. To inject "the vitality of youth that students bring," Physiologist Bronk set up a small graduate school in 1954, a year after he became president; in 1965 he had Rockefeller retitled from an institute to a university. Resisting the expansionist impulse, Bronk has insisted that R.U. remain small in order to concentrate on "areas where we can really excel." As a result, R.U. "appoints" no more than 30 new students a year out of the 170 candidates recommended for admission by scholars around the world. So conscientious are its standards...
...Munich-based corporation, whose 1967 sales of $2 billion and profits of $40 million made it West Germany's biggest private company, the Argentine nuclear plant will be its fifth -and its first outside the country. It marks the latest foreign victory for an expansionist-minded organization with 95 subsidiaries that include a cable factory in India and a railway-switchgear plant in South Africa. When the company built a hydroelectric plant in Afghanistan, it not only trained mechanics in Germany to run the operation but also erected the electrical and telephone system powered by the plant...
...intention of increasing his payments. Indeed, he has taken advantage of the Egyptian withdrawal from Yemen to promote a Royalist offensive against the Republican capital of San'a. If he can dislodge the Yemeni Republicans, Feisal hopes that he will then be in a position to contain the expansionist-minded N.L.F. regime in South Yemen and possibly even engineer the return of the sheiks to power...