Word: protectionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Figures published by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) show the US Forestry Service sprayed over five million pounds of 2,4,5-T over the U.S. in 1976. It defends the use of this herbicide on the grounds that it defoliates selectively, killing hardwoods without harming softwoods, which accounts for...
Bureaucratic indifference to human suffering is nothing new. But the continued inaction of the Veterans' Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency is criminally callous in the face of scientific evidence indicating the toxicity of dioxin. The United States is now turning a weapon of war back on its own people...
Environmental problems under discussion also include choice of tunnel-boring techniques and construction materials. Danehy has asked that those methods which "maximize protection to Cambridge citizens" be used.
Harshbarger credits the success of his campaign to many things. For one, the former Assistant Attorney General and chief of the Public Protection Bureau has been strongly endorsed by The Boston Globe, the South Middlesex News, The Lowell Sun, The Somerville Journal, the Minuteman Publications, The Real Paper, as well...
Finally the exchanges moved, lifting the initial margin requirements for gambling issues from 50% to 75%-meaning that buyers would have to put up at least $750 for every $1,000 stock purchase. The Big Board said it was acting "to insure the protection of public investors and the maintenance...