Word: protectionism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Of course, a U.S. President would be foolish to declare a friendly Asian nation beyond the pale of American protection; Korea is not that distant a memory. The U.S. can also help an ally to oppose insurgency without committing American troops to the action. What Nixon was saying, aides explained...
Even the most recalcitrant whites are likely to accept social integration at a faster rate if they gain far more than they lose in the process. One idea should certainly be tried out in the hundreds of lower-middle-class schools that are now in many ways just as inferior...
Unhappy Broadcasters. Cullman's capitulation caught broadcasters by surprise. They had proposed to phase out cigarette ads over a three-year period beginning in January 1970. Such ads mean some $225 million a year to media broadcasters, and they had hoped that their schedule would ease the economic jolt...
Rent control protects some tenants somewhat against rent increases, though which tenants are really helped and the extent of their protection remain unclear. It does tend to hurt landlords, though clever speculators can usually find a way over, under, or around such a law, creating a black market in housing...
FACED WITH these threats, many of the older residents of Cambridge have been looking for a solution or, perhaps more accurately, a panacea. Rent control on its face appeared to offer it: an insurance that one could stay the rest of one's days in the familial apartment, free from...