Word: populists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last popular thing he did. Two days after taking office, he devalued the peso from 15 to the U.S. dollar to 30. He also took a drastic step to solve one of the country's basic economic problems: prices, controlled by the Peronists as a populist measure, had fallen so far behind wages that production was lagging. Rodrigo announced price hikes in essential goods that quickly blossomed into across-the-board increases (see chart). On the first day of the new prices, many small stores simply closed their doors while owners put new price tags on merchandise already...
...danger of being hoist with his own petard. It was Benn who in 1972 first proposed the Common Market referendum. At the time, opinion polls were reporting a solid 2-to-1 antiMarket majority. Benn saw the referendum as an ideal vehicle to propel himself into leadership of a populist left-wing movement that would assert its supremacy over the pro-Market establishment in the Labor Party. With the help of enormous and largely hostile press publicity, he turned the referendum into a plebiscite on himself as well as the EEC. It now seems that Benn overplayed his hand...
...loved their country and weren't very interested in politics were likely to find themselves traveling in strange, hostile, bewildering countries, like Kafka's explorer. As the orphans poured in, and word began to spread that even the Saigon government's own troops might turn against withdrawing American troops, 'populist' papers like The Chicago Tribune began to thunder about incomprehensible Vietnamese ingratitude...
...party, possibly entering and winning in 1976, will be a populist party dedicated to the interests of the vast middle class, the productive segment of our society now neglected by Democrats for welfare and minority groups, and by Republicans who favor vested and inherited interests...
...Populist ended his appeal for support with a quote from an old Woodie Guthrie song. "This land this land is my land...