Word: interventionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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During World War II, Eleanor remained an uncompromising voice on civil rights, insisting that America could not fight racism abroad while tolerating it at home. Progress was slow, but her continuing intervention led to broadened opportunities for blacks in the factories and shipyards at home and in the armed forces...
When the scandal first broke last summer, Lyons cried he was the victim of a racial smear. With each damaging disclosure, an electronic phone-announcement service would summon Bethel members to emergency church meetings. "We need to talk," Lyons would say before launching into his explanation. But soon other skeletons...
In theory, economic efficiency can be achieved without government intervention when the externality affects relatively few parties and when property rights are well specified. But in Central Square, this is hardly the case.
In fact, it is the Congress party which has historically pandered to minority interests in return for votes and turned a blind eye to communal violence when minorities withdrew support. Congress's blatant non-intervention in anti-Sikh violence in the 1984 Punjab reprisal and anti-Muslim violence in the...
Albright, Cohen and Berger should have known they were handling a booby-trapped assignment that could explode in their faces. Americans are always reluctant to get into foreign wars, preferring neutrality and shrinking from the shedding of blood, even the enemy's. They wanted to stay out of World War...