Word: isolationists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lawmakers could hardly be hurt by the additional information foreign lobbyists provide. Preventing the input of foreign lobbyists could pave the way for xenophobic and isolationist policy by making it possible to ignore international perspectives...
...formative period for me. I went into college not knowing I was going to be a play-wright, it was a period of great growth for me, one of the conflicts was that I began to be aware of Asian-American politics and literature and I went into an isolationist nationalist phase, and I think that's really important. At the same time, I knew even when I was in the phase that it should be only one step on a longer journey...
Yale is now paying a heavy price for its traditional isolationist policy. Frightened students and taller fences are only the most visible signs of Yale's reaction to New Haven's crime problem...
...attempt to reconsider America's world role, reform its priorities, recruit its strength was dismissed by Bush as isolationist -- which took the country further back than World War II, back to the rhetoric of the 1930s. It was a comparative advance toward modernity for Bush to re-enter the cold war of the 1950s by raising McCarthyite doubts about Clinton's trip to Moscow. At any rate it is hard to find anything new in Bush's new world order. Even before communism's fall, Reagan was far readier to imagine a different world arrangement, to adapt and dream, than...
...isolationist national policy would allow for the creation of a similar organization, perhaps at the cost of an across-the-board cut of foreign aid. This method would seem to be the best way of bringing American dollars back home, regardless of President Bush's existing foreign trade plans...