Word: 90s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...danger: far greater Government involvement in the economy. A key tenet for many supporters is that Government should foster those companies or industries that show the most potential. The idea is that Washington would pick out the most promising industrial sectors for the late '80s and '90s, such as microprocessors and telecommunications, and then, by means of tax policy and trade measures, encourage or cajole companies into those areas and away from declining industries like textiles...
...full Brandt commission recommendations for the 1980s and '90s are a combination of the ambitious and realistic plus the romantic and unpractical. The report correctly points out that nations spend $450 billion a year on arms but only $20 billion annually on official development aid. But Brandt's suggested tax on the export of war materiel is likely to be as quickly forgotten as the 1928 Kellogg-Briand treaty outlawing all wars. The commission rightly points out the past weakness of United Nations organizations in dealing with North-South problems but then proposes a new U.N. agency that...