Word: interventionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bower: I think that's a terribly important distinction because it seems to me that when I debate with Bob about this. I almost always am sympathetic with large elements of his diagnosis, that is to say that we have a whole set of individual policies that affect industry which...
Bower: My differences with Bob have to do with the ability or wisdom of trying to get a coherent intervention. Let's take the G.M.-Toyota example. Presumably, how you handle G.M. Toyota is going to have something to do with the trade position of the United States and effect...
Last summer the U.S. joined a four-nation effort that pumped some $3 billion into foreign-exchange markets to buy marks, francs and other currencies in an attempt to stem the dollar's rise. Washington contributed $254 million to that intervention, which was tiny in comparison with the $30...
Amin was warming to his subject and moved to the edge of the sofa. "You have to know something. People here are attached to a liberal system. This is our national feeling, our genuine feeling. Right now, in Lebanon, Syrians are taking political hostages. You are obliged to collaborate, go...
The power of celebrity in the modern age is sometimes astonishing to behold. But miraculous? In Europe rumors have circulated that a devout tourist had her prayers answered last spring and a doctor recorded the inexplicable recovery of a patient; both attributed the developments to the intervention of Princess Grace...