Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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For corporate America, the past decade was a time of easy money and hell- bent expansion. As capital poured in from eager lenders in the U.S. and overseas, American firms went on an unprecedented credit binge. Commercial IOUs soared from $829 billion in 1980 to $2 trillion last year, enabling...
"This is an experiment that we hope will provide good information for us and may lead to further expansion," said Associate Dean Thomas A. Dingman, director of the Office of Disability Resources (ODR). "We are thrilled that we have this resource and we will provide full support for it."
But Venezuela's integration with the outside world makes it all the more vulnerable to what is happening there. Faced with staggering new energy costs, Third World and East European countries are asking for Venezuelan oil on credit or at a discount. The more poverty grows in Latin America and...
For all the talk of capital-gains tax cuts, millionaire surcharges and a shifting rate bubble, some of the biggest winners of this fall's budget battle were those most in need: the nation's poor children. Topping the list of new benefits for low-income working families: some $4...
& The forces that propelled the expansion of the past decade are now pushing in the opposite direction. The U.S. and British economies are either in a recession or on the brink of one, and corporations are shrinking their office space. At the same time, developers are feeling the effects of...