Word: expansionist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...latent tensions between Harvard's expansionist tendencies and those seeking to protect affordable housing in Cambridge have flared again this year...
...Russia reverts to its traditional expansionist policies, in the absence of NATO, a nationalist state will be tempted to extend its control into the power vacuum to the west. But if the U.S. extends its security guarantees to the Czechs, Slovaks, Poles and Hungarians, Russia will find Eastern Europe more than it can swallow...
...Crips network is estimated to have distributed hundreds of kilos of crack and cocaine powder worth well in excess of $10 million on the street. And Q's network, according to the FBI, is only one of perhaps a hundred more in operation. They emanate from Los Angeles' increasingly expansionist gangland. Says FBI special agent-in- charge Charley Parsons in Los Angeles: ``The gangs are literally franchising themselves...
...made weapons and a somewhat democratic mandate, could become an example of the peril of hawkishness. He has proven his readiness to assume dictatorial powers in the past--he declared martial law after a slew of political and economically-related protests--and he could yet have some totalitarian or expansionist ambitions up his camouflage sleeve...
...much more electricity. Additional billions would be extended on the condition that Kiev undertake some major economic reforms. In the view of U.S. officials, Ukraine, a nation of 52 million, could become either a new sick man of Europe or a major power and barrier to a possibly newly expansionist Russia. But having promised to give up its nuclear weapons, Ukraine needs other means of ensuring its independence from Moscow. Increasing its nuclear generating capacity, and thus making it less dependent on fuels bought from Russia, could help...