Word: expansionist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lamont could easily find an eager partner for this venture. The aggressive little C'est Bon, which has recently entered an expansionist phase, would probably love to open a concession in the library, thereby paving the way for a C'est Bon in Widener, the History Department's tutorial office and your very own bathroom. If space is an issue, the library could easily accommodate Cafe Lamont by bull-dozing those sketchy fifth-floor classrooms. Who uses them anyway...
...cultural and religious opposites were, in each of the three wars, slugging it out: "From the seventeenth century, the English-speaking peoples on both continents defined themselves by wars that upheld, at least for a while, a guiding political culture of a Low Church, Calvinistic Protestantism, commercially adept, militantly expansionist, and highly convinced, in Old World, New World, or both, that it represented a chosen people and a manifest destiny. In the full, three-century context, Cavaliers, aristocrats, and bishops pretty much lost and Puritans, Yankees, self-made entrepreneurs, Anglo-Saxon nationalists, and expansionists had the edge, especially in America...
Calling the Indian government aggressive, expansionist and deceptive, Pakistani ambassador to the United Nations Ahmad Kamal delivered a powerful, and at times shocking, message to an audience of 50 in the Lowell House Junior Common Room last night...
McColl's conquests have enriched the shareholders of NationsBank and the banks it has bought--shareholders that include many bank employees, from tellers to vice presidents. But the growing profits of NationsBank and other expansionist lenders have come in part from new and higher fees charged customers, shuttered branch offices and a decrease in traditional services at teller windows and by telephone. How long can any business keep increasing profits if many of its customers feel neglected? One answer can be found in a state that McColl has targeted for expansion: California. There, Wells Fargo, after its hostile 1996 acquisition...
...Jefferson's presidency starts a vast expansionist drive across the continent...