Word: protectionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Funny thing about being a front runner though, someone is always trying to give you a role in their debate. So far, Bush has resisted being drawn into national moments, like this one on gun control, choosing instead to sit on his lead until mid-June, when he plans to...
Approved by the Environmental Protection Agency in 1996, so-called Bt corn has become enormously popular with farmers, and now accounts for up to 25% of the U.S. corn crop, or about 20 million acres. By splicing DNA from the common soil bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis into the corn's genes...
Losey is eager to take the experiments into the field, to measure pollen density at various distances from its source so as to determine risk to monarch larvae at each site. Says Losey: "We have to weigh the costs and benefits [of Bt corn], then decide as a society what...
At the end of the sit-in, the Michigan students won an agreement that included full disclosure, protection for women and a living wage for workers. Other sit-ins on the issue have taken place at Duke, Brown and Georgetown universities, the University of Arizona and the University of North...
The second demand was for workers to be paid a "living wage" for the country they live in. Third was an assurance of protection for women--who activists say are more vulnerable in some factory settings.