Word: protectionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Eizenstat now directs a 27-member staff that advises the President on domestic matters and coordinates White House policies with federal agencies. He is one of the few advisers to see Carter daily, and sometimes several times a day. Other Administration officials give him high marks for accurately presenting their...
Physical attacks are now rare. Still, the Patriarch and his parishioners have suffered continual harassment. Last May, when 150 youths broke into the courtyard of the Patriarch's residence to shout Greeks-go-home slogans, it took local police half an hour to answer calls for help. Greeks tell...
For one thing, until the latest raid, Palestinian terrorist activity inside Israel had not been particularly heavy in recent months. Moreover, since southern Lebanon became a base of Palestinian operations in the early 1970s, the Israelis have clearly had the better of the sporadic cross-border conflict in the area...
There is also a benefit for the physician. A doctor who does a caesarean to avoid a difficult birth can rarely be faulted legally; on the other hand, a physician who performs a forceps delivery may find himself facing a malpractice suit if the infant turns out impaired. New York...
Possibly a fourth of the local's miners would go back to work if no pickets appeared and if they were guaranteed some protection. But they are certain that "stranger" pickets, who cannot be readily identified and thus prosecuted, will show up and that protection cannot be provided. "Local...