Word: anties
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strategy of "anti-communism" is a cover for American institutions to stifle economic nationalism abroad, Chomsky said. These institutions, chiefly multinational corporations and the federal government, are willing to go to war to keep foreign markets open, he said...
...reality, Thurmond has been an aggressive watchdog for corporate interests on several fronts. He fought hard to defeat the labor law reform bill, for example, and has even gone so far as to actively discourage companies that were less than rabidly anti-union from locating in South Carolina...
Although no country has more ties to the U.S., anti-American feeling now runs higher in the Philippines than at any time since they gained independence in 1946. Increasing nationalism has made many Filipinos resentful of the conspicuous signs of American influence. The U.S. embassy in Manila is one of the largest in the world, with a staff of 813. Even some of Marcos' opponents felt that the U.S. stance on human rights was a crude intervention in Manila's domestic affairs. Local businessmen complain that their coconut oil is heavily taxed when it enters American ports, while...
...compromise on natural gas, the improved U.S. trade figures for August and Jimmy Carter's brief address to the IMF meeting pledging his "reputation as a leader" in support of the dollar. Still, delegates were disappointed by his lack of specifics about the Administration's anti-inflation and budget-cutting plans...
Just after World War II, admirals had been nervous about the stocky ingotsize metallurgist from Penn State who badgered them to scrap their old anti-aircraft guns and start developing surface-to-air missiles. Byrom won that round-and he won the Navy's Distinguished Civilian Service Award A few years later, by-the-book bosses at Koppers Co. fumed when they learned that their young executive disobeyed orders and put in a costly distillation process. When it proved enormously profitable, they hailed...