Word: populists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like other oil-importing countries, Panama was savaged by the OPEC-induced recession. Torrijos' populist policies did not aid recovery. A law making it difficult for landlords to evict rent-delinquent tenants halted private housing construction, and new hiring has been discouraged by labor regulations that make the firing of employees a byzantine process. In 1973 the government concluded that salvation lay in growing more sugar: the industry is labor-intensive and world prices were high, but they have since fallen. Recently the government warned that 20,000 more workers will be idled and the economy will tumble into...
...issues listed above are probably the most crucial long-term problem facing the United States. To many of us, the problems as well as the available solutions are obvious. It was with this in mind that so many of us got excited when the Southern populist with a heart full of media-manipulated goodwill ran for the presidency. We elected him not because of his experience, but because of our faith and optimism in this possibly trustworthy...
...resolution of these alarming possibilities rests in large part in the hands of two French-speaking Quebecois: Canada's aloof, intellectual Prime Minister, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 58, and passionate, populist Quebec Premier René Lévesque (pronounced...
When Finch mounts the speakers platform, the populist ring in his voice is as clear as a bed. He first recounts his poor childhood on his daddy's farm and eulogizes the honesty and integrity of hard work. Then he urges all the "working men and women" of Mississippi to unite to fight for more and better-paying jobs and to help create a "better, fairer" Mississippi for all. The elocution is egregious, but the 'underlying egalitarian message of his orations is obvious...
Over the past three months the two Carters made hundreds of decisions, the populist Carter sometimes winning but the tightfisted Carter always there to rap his knuckles. The budget and economic experts who huddled with the President could see the inner struggle. More than once the troops of Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal, back in their offices, would look at each other and say, "We do not know where the President stands...