Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rather than a crash program, the nation needs years of steady growth in production at somewhere around the 6% pace widely predicted for 1976 to come anywhere close to full employment. In order to achieve 6% economic expansion for several years, the Government may well have to adopt more generous...
- Expansion and redirection of Government-financed job-training programs. Economist Charles Holt of the Urban Institute, a private research organization, suggests that the Government finance more programs to train semiskilled workers to move up into highly skilled jobs. That would open up more semiskilled jobs.
In its news bulletin, Trialogue, the Trilateral Commission characterizes its policies towards international relations as the "reformist approach." It believes that "expansion of the global economic pie, rather than (its) redistribution, is the most hopeful means of improving the relative economic positions of the poorer nations."
As a policy-maker for the Trilateral Commission, Huntington warns, that democracy "may only work when there is a relatively constant increase in the economic well-being of society." He warns that "there are potentially desirable limits to the indefinite expansion of political democracy. Finally," he continues, "a government which...
Among Europe's smaller countries, the pattern is decidedly mixed. Belgium and The Netherlands are still preoccupied with combatting their high rates of inflation. Switzerland has shipped home 100,000 foreign workers to stave off unemployment among citizens, but its recovery is dependent on the renewed health of its...