Word: interventionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cult Hero. Since the 1960s, when most economists were committed to the Keynesian view that a balance between inflation and unemployment was best maintained by a "fine tuning" of Government spending levels and other kinds of intervention (including controls), the policymakers have indeed paid more attention to monetary factors. That...
The U.S., he added, "wants no special position or sphere of influence in Africa." American interests would be "best served by an Africa seeking its own destiny free of outside intervention." Clearly referring to the Russians, who imported 13,000 Cuban troops into Angola late last year to put a...
The moral issues at stake for this great country are the material waste and moral decay brought about by the arms race, open or clandestine intervention in the domestic life of other countries, support for unpopular and authoritarian governments, and the establishment, together with other powerful nations, of an unjust...
"Throughout the three months that Brown University has been plagued by the strike, our administration has repeatedly and emphatically stated its abhorrence to having outside intervention in our `family' dispute. Now they have done this," the statement continued.
But the missionaries learned that, as Americans, they were not always welcome. Davis discovered the hard way that some Uruguayans still harbor grudges about American political intervention. During Davis's mission one of his compatriots was shot while going door-to-door in Montevideo. Davis himself says that he had...