Word: interventionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unfortunately for a populace that tends to equate health with crisis intervention--surgery and antibiotics--what counts more is moderation and common sense, the dreary behavioral equivalent of tofu. We say we jog and eat low-grease chips and may convince ourselves that this is true, or will be true...
Republicans rant about personal responsibility and the damaging effects of the welfare state, but their solution is to create an army of low skilled labor for workfare and minimum wage dead end jobs. Those who would rather raise their children, receive job training or cannot find jobs will be forced...
In France, meanwhile, top officials had called off their Christmas holidays to deal with the crisis. At noon on Dec. 24, Foreign Minister Alain Juppe convened a crisis team, while Interior Minister Charles Pasqua met with aides long into the night. The first objective of the French was to persuade...
Simultaneously, the two other teams entered through the two rear doors, deploying escape chutes and herding passengers out the emergency exits. Paratroopers met them on the tarmac and instructed them to crawl toward the terminal, where the wounded were given emergency treatment, mostly for scrapes and bruises. The rear cabin...
John Paul can also impose his will, and there was no more formidable and controversial example of this than the Vatican's intervention at the U.N.'s International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo in September. There the Pope's emissaries defeated a U.S.-backed proposition John Paul feared...