Word: expansionism
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The most serious threat to world financial and economic health is a collapse of the U.S. dollar, which could come when foreign investors finally deem the current account deficit to be out of hand. That would make the U.S. less attractive to foreign investors and depress the stock market, turning...
Sure, the Tasty has been captured for celluloid posterity in such quality films as "With Honors" and of course, "Good Will Hunting," but the real thing will be missed. An analysis of the corporate expansion and pressures behind the Tasty's slow demise is best saved for another day. But...
A leader in the field of queer theory, Pellegrini has been largely responsible for Harvard's academic expansion into the field of gay and lesbian studies since she arrived on campus in the fall of 1997.
If the homeless have vanished from public consciousness in the '90s, it may be because in many cities they have vanished from sight. Cuomo attributes this to the expansion of shelters and other services; but increasingly, frustrated municipal governments are responding to the problem by cracking down on panhandling, sweeping...
In The Cousins' Wars: Religion, Politics, and the Triumph of Anglo-America (Basic Books; 707 pages; $32.50) Kevin Phillips fetches back 3 1/2 centuries for a complex, ingeniously woven explanation. His thesis, mostly persuasive, is that the English-speaking world prospered as it has because in three internecine conflicts (the...