Word: protectionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Braniff airlines suddenly canceled virtually all its 256 daily flights last Wednesday, many customers must have had a sinking sense of deja vu. Just five years after the airline emerged from a two-year bout with Chapter 11, Braniff said it was filing for bankruptcy protection once again. The...
The stick could be a United Nations environmental police force deployed around the world to guard the planet's most precious natural resources. That is the vision put forward by Austrian Foreign Minister Alois Mock in a speech before the U.N. General Assembly. Mock points out that the growing body...
The Washington march organized by NOW is expected to be the largest women's rights demonstration ever in the United States. It comes in the wake of last July's landmark Supreme Court decision in Webster v. Reproductive Health Services, which weakened the federal protection of abortion set forth in...
"Unless they live in the city of Boston or Cambridge, both of which have local ordinances, there is no protection against discrimination," Cathcart adds. "If the bill passes and becomes law, then MCAD will have jurisdiction," he says.
The Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has downgraded the classification of the hazardous waste on the St. Paul's Parish parking lot behind Quincy House to "non-priority", a spokesperson for the DEP said yesterday.