Word: protectionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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S Ohio's exasperation with the environmental protection bureaucracy in California was surely understood by executives at many other companies, where "the high cost of Government regulation" has become one of the most cited sources of corporate angst. How steep is the price of meeting the proliferating demands and...
The study found the Environmental Protection Agency responsible for 77% of all the added costs, while the much criticized Occupational Safety and Health Administration accounted for only 7%. Requirements imposed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission were responsible for 8%, the Department of Energy for 5%, the Employee Retirement Income...
Here, too, Washington regulators are putting up roadblocks even though, ironically, the diesel meets all present emission standards. Unlike conventional engines, diesels give off tiny specks of soot known as particulates. In January the Environmental Protection Agency proposed that a limit on diesel particulates be set at 0.2 grams per...
China's new rulers might put it more practically: no law, no Four Modernizations program to improve agriculture, industry, defense, and science and technology. "It is essential to strengthen the socialist legal system if we are to bring great order across the land," says Chairman Hua Kuo-feng. That...
But the assignment of more minority policemen cannot change the fundamental problems of race and ethnic relations in Boston--problems which are deeply rooted in the attitudes of politicians, the press, school officials, and the average person-on-the-street. In response to the black community's outcry over the...