Word: expansionists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what do we mean by "given up?" Ravenal would have us believe that there is increasing evidence of the inability of any single power to control the international system. But now is not the future. And it would appear that the Soviet Union is about ready to enter an expansionist period. In the context of purely isolationist American foreign policy, one can hazard a pretty fair guess as to what "given up" will mean. At least in one case, that of Israel, it will mean nothing short of destruction...
...doing so, Tokyo agreed to Peking's demand that the treaty include a clause opposing "hegemony"-China's current code word for Moscow's expansionist (in the Chinese view) foreign policy...
...years later, says Wriston, "my dart hit the board." George Moore, Citibank's great postwar expansionist, picked the young Wriston to direct the important European operation. Wriston was so successful that within three years he was heading the bank's entire foreign operations. From then on, there was little doubt that the brash young Wriston would some day boss the bank...
...brothers' defeat came at a difficult time for both. David Rockefeller's soft-selling bank has been outdistanced in assets since 1968 by New York's aggressively expansionist First National City Bank. Nelson Rockefeller has been increasingly attacked by Republican conservatives, who distrust him as an Eastern liberal, even though he has swung sharply to the right in recent years on welfare, drug use and other issues. His stand on New York further alienated the conservatives, stepping up the pressure on Ford to dump him in 1976. Moreover, New York's plight tarnishes his creative...
...alignments have changed drastically since 1969, No longer is it black and white worker-hero tenants of Harvard Vs. evil landlord with expansionist, tendencies. In fact, the situation is so confused that publicity for the massive project has been stymied. Things have gotten so cloudy that a local politician, State Rep. Kevin Fitzgerald, came right out and admitted that he was "confused" about his position on the issue...