Word: isolationist
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Sabbagh said isolationist forces in the country were attempting to withdraw Lebanon from the conflict with Zionism...
...Congress. I was a man of the Congress and I was proud of the fact. But by 1973 I had concluded that Congress had become cumbersome, undisciplined, isolationist, fiscally irresponsible, overly vulnerable to pressures from organized minorities and too dominated by the media...
Crimson: You have been said to be very isolationist regarding the artist's relation to politics--that is, denying any common meeting ground between art and politics...
This is a fine and even courageous proposal, especially in light of the isolationist and xenophobic feelings that seem to dominate public opinion, and it is one that should have been advocated and enacted long ago. It would enable people who have lived here, married here and built homes here to cease worrying about being impersonally torn from lives years in the making...
...President Carter to limit steel imports to 18% of the U.S. market (v. present imports of around 20%). He warned that if Carter does not, Congress might legislate a wide-ranging protectionist program next year. Said Vanik: "When you consider that about one-third of the House members are isolationist to start with, and you add onto that the 40 members who are concerned about textile imports, 18 to 20 members concerned with shoe imports, another 20 whose districts are affected by television and electronic imports, and about 100 that represent steel-manufacturing areas -you can bet that Congress will...