Word: isolationism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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If the model sounds familiar, there's a reason: it's very like what the U.S. did in the 1990s. That was the decade in which the U.S. had to dramatically restructure its economy for a new, postindustrial age after the violent recessions of the 1970s and early '80s. And...
As he threaded his way up through fields of jagged boulders and knee-deep snow toward the summit of Colorado's Mount Bierstadt last week, Denver banker Don Pritchett looked forward to the splendor and isolation of the 14,060-ft. peak. But when he reached the top, he found...
Since the dramatic changes of the 1990s that brought South Africa out of political and economic isolation, the country has succeeded in putting itself on the international travel-and-tourism map. After Nelson Mandela's election in 1994, the number of regional and overseas holiday visitors increased 50%, to more...
"I would turn the Mir space station into a prison in which we would place criminals who are convicted of crimes against humanity. Their sentence is not only isolation in space, but they would be forced to look down on earth to see how interdependent humans are on each other...
The problems of depressed and troubled youngsters cannot be solved simply by more love, more pills or more legislation in isolation. A network of support, evaluation and treatment is needed, tailored to the personality of each child. ROBERT D. HUNT, M.D. Nashville, Tenn.