Word: isolationist
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...investments on hold until they can see what sort of political and business climate emerges from the present turmoil. The wait may be a long one, and even when it ends, Western involvement will depend on whether the eventual winners are receptive to foreign influence or are isolationist hard-liners. Thermo Electron, a Waltham, Mass., company, is negotiating to build in China a $110 million co-generation plant that would turn out electric power and ferrosilicon metal by reusing the same fuel (coal). But, says chief executive George Hatsopoulos, "if the situation reverted to anything like the ((1960s)) Cultural Revolution...
...there is less unity among Black students today, Clark said. "When I was a [freshperson in 1977], there seemed to be a greater sense of unity among the Black students," he says. Stressing that he is "not an isolationist," he noted, however, that the campus is more fragmented now. "The Black students don't seem to be connected," he said...
...brief heyday of bipartisanship was in the Truman years, when a Democratic Administration enlisted the support of a pre-World War II isolationist Republican, Senator Arthur Vandenberg, in the postwar reconstruction of Europe. But Vandenberg later joined in highly partisan attacks on the Democrats for "losing" China and "letting" the Soviet Union acquire the atom bomb...
Under his leadership, Gonzalez said, the Spanish government has been able to break out of its traditionally isolationist mold. Gonzalez said 300,000 new jobs have been created, a "cultural awakening" is spreading, and the nation's scientific achievements have increased...
Viet Nam and Tet reverberate now in American foreign policy and in American psychology about the rest of the world. Ever since, any attempts to assert American force have twitched a neo-isolationist nerve. Only easy knockouts like Grenada seem tolerable, and then only if done so quickly that television has no time to bring the carnage into the house. But for the experience of Viet Nam, the U.S. might have invaded Nicaragua by now; the threat there is more immediate, the logistics easier. Instead, the battle is waged by proxy, sloppily and tentatively and erratically. "Involvement" and "commitment" have...