Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard was busy this summer altering its skyline to provide for expansion of its affiliated housing, art collection and hotel rooms in the Square.
Harvard was busy this summer altering its skyline to provide for expansion of its affiliated housing, art collection and hotel rooms in the Square.
The on-again-off-again stalemate began in early July when Quebec police raided a four-month-old blockade the Indians had erected at Kanesatake. The Mohawks were protesting a proposed expansion of a local golf course into what they regard as ancestral land. In the ensuing gunfight, a police...
Then there was the mutual odium between the late Ayatullah Khomeini of Iran and the country he kept calling "the Great Satan." So thoroughly did American politicians and citizens reciprocate Khomeini's loathing that U.S. policy in the '80s tilted toward none other than Saddam Hussein. The enemy of our...
The evidence of a U.S. recession is growing more abundant by the week. Trouble spots range from rising unemployment, which increased from 5.2% in June to 5.5% in July, to falling U.S. corporate profits, which declined 12% in the first half of 1990. Meanwhile, the savings and loan crisis inspired...