Word: protectionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Private contracting firms have stored tons of asbestos in their warehouses over the last six months since New England dumps began refusing to accept asbestos waste, a spokesman for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said yesterday.
Harvard is exempt from the ordinance because of its special protection under the state constitution.
Whatever their views of the U.S.-Iran dispute, diplomats everywhere agree that Khomeini's support of the assault is a dangerous precedent. "Under the tenets of diplomatic immunity," explains Robert Beers, executive director of the American Foreign Service Association, "anyone accredited to another country as a diplomat is entitled...
"Oh, Government is a legitimate function," Reagan adds. "When I talk about regulations, I always use the words 'unnecessary regulations.' I don't want medicines that could destroy our health instead of helping us. But then Government goes beyond that protection thing, and they start trying to...
But before Thatcher made that public statement, an official of the Cabinet Office discreetly warned Blunt of the impending disclosures and the erstwhile curator immediately vanished from his London flat. "The situation is quite scandalous," declared Labor M.P. James Wellbeloved. The Prime Minister's spokesman replied that the warning...