Word: arch-protectionist
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Kerrey's also a mean-spirited Japan basher, an arch-protectionist and a supporter of massive and terribly inefficient farm subsidies. There's nothing charming about any of this. Despite his touchy-feely reputation, these views are cold, calculated politics designed to get the Gephardt vote and neutralize Harkin. Too bad the U.S. cannot afford to fight a trade war with Japan--not since the American share of world trade has declined by one-third in the last 20 years...
Voting against the protectionists this time was none other than Arch-Protectionist Dan Reed, who had explained earlier: "Last year, when I had a desperate fight on tax revision and other legislation, the distinguished gentleman from Tennessee [Jere Cooper] was in the minority. I asked him to cooperate with me for a tight rule to get the legislation through. He did it. I told him I would-" Reed came to the hated word, then plunged ahead, "-reciprocate." Reed kept his promise, even though it cost him dearly. His was the deciding vote...
Ceylon sunbeams beat wickedly last week on the high silk topper of Australia's arch-protectionist Prime Minister, James Henry Scullin, the Laborite who has ringed his Dominion with both a tariff wall and a barbed wire circle of embargoes (TIME, July...
Despite the arch-protectionist predilections of Frenchmen, the manifesto was signed by M. Rene Laederich, Regent of the Bank of France, and by eight other potent French financiers...
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