Word: interventionism
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Soros advocates government intervention in order to protect and promote those things which the free market ignores, what he calls "intrinsic values." But when Soros writes that "society needs institutions to serve such social goals as political freedom and social justice" (as he did in a January 1998 Atlantic Monthly...
Nor do we honor economists here, preferring to include them in a subsequent issue devoted to scientists and thinkers. But surely our nation and the world would be less strong today, and many of our most famous business leaders would seem less prescient, absent the guidance of the Federal Reserve...
Despite such hostility, Ramerman hopes that "God will part the Red Sea so that I can do what I love to do." But in the meantime she's not waiting for divine intervention. At United Presbyterian she has formed an impromptu priesthood of her own: about 100 worshippers are wearing...
Gene therapy seems wondrous and, as a new form of intimate intervention in nature's business, vaguely disconcerting. The other major approach to angiogenesis--drilling tiny holes directly into the beating heart muscle with a laser--seems aggressively screwy. But the procedure (called transmyocardial revascularization) seems to work. And as...
Halliday stressed the necessity of UN sensitivity when dealing with national sovereignty, but advocated intervention only under certain conditions.