Word: expansionists
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...they insist HRE is wrought with waste, that its single mission it to make money for the University, and they are the victims. "Sometime in the mid-1970s, Harvard reviewed its policies on real estate. Until then, we had seen benign neglect; now they are in a new abrasive, expansionist phase," Michael Turk, principal organizer of the Harvard Tenants Union, says...
Soviet strategic policy is expansionist...
...helping President Goukouni Oueddei to defeat his rival. Defense Minister Hissene Habre. The proposed Libya-Chad merger thus appeared less a union between consenting sovereign nations than an outright Libyan annexation of the impoverished, landlocked country of 4.5 million. Chad is an ideal launching position for his expansionist dream of a Saharan empire that would stretch from the Atlantic...
...adviser. After the G.O.P. ultras and moderates had fought to a draw over who should occupy the chair, Reagan picked a man acceptable to both camps: Walter Wriston, 63, chairman of Manhattan's Citibank, second largest in the U.S. Wriston is one of the energetic creators of modern, expansionist, risk-taking banking, yet his views are unimpeachably conservative...
...Viet Nam's 1978 invasion of Cambodia, more than 200,000 troops are tied down in that country. Another 50,000 have become an apparently permanent occupying force in Laos. Those expeditionary forces are merely the most obvious evidence of a pervading reality about Viet Nam today: expansionist adventures are costly. A nation whose gross national product is only 3% of America's is maintaining an army of 1 million-a force one-third larger than the U.S. Army...