Word: interventionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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In a press conference last week, Bush said the United States should play a "catalytic role" in bringing about democratic rule in Afghanistan. But advisers stressed later that the U.S. would continue a calculated policy of strict non-intervention in Afghanistan.
In the use of American military force abroad, Reagan drew the U.S. back from its post-Viet Nam allergy to intervention. He established his bona fides as tough guy so thoroughly that, unlike Carter, he was largely immune to political damage when terrorists demonstrated in bloody fashion just how vulnerable...
Many of these problems did not start with the Reagan Administration. And though the national conceit puts the presidency at the center of our political solar system, no President can shine so brightly that every shadow disappears. Reagan's failure was to deny frequently that the shadows existed. While incumbency...
So in 1982, without the least background in business, he founded the TACOLCY Economic Development Corp., Inc., now one of the nation's most successful nonprofit community developers. He did not simply want to build nicer ghetto housing; he wanted to build an economy. "It was real new for us...
The problem with defense in depth is that no matter how many layers of safety are built into a conventional reactor, it can never be 100% safe against a meltdown. At its Idaho plant, the Energy Department wants to try a different strategy. Rather than construct a giant atomic pile...