Word: interventionism
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The animosity between these two competitors, the private Clearinghouse and the public Fed, ensured the failure of the Fed’s intervention in March 1933. At the beginning of March, $700 million were withdrawn from banks, plunging the Dow to only 50 points. In an effort to avoid further...
But in a strongly worded conclusion, Eisner pointed out that some of the most important breakthroughs for human health have come from altering environmental factors and that even in an era of "groundbreaking science aimed at decoding the human genome...millions of people worldwide continue to die from passive smoking...
But the Council of Europe - whose Committee for the Prevention of Torture investigated the Czech policy - says it can be described as medical intervention only if the genitalia are diseased or damaged. "Surgical castration is no longer a generally accepted medical intervention in the treatment of sex offenders," the council...
In its report, the Council of Europe also criticized the fact that the Czechs often use the punishment on first-time, nonviolent offenders, like exhibitionists. Another issue: the Czech penal system effectively forces many prisoners into accepting the procedure out of fear they will be jailed for life if they...
A case where greater African unity could have a major impact is the failed state of Somalia, where a vicious internecine conflict has raged since the collapse of central government in 1991. Somalia has been a center of lawlessness and disorder for some years now, and failed military intervention by...