Word: protectionism
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Is handing thousands of firearms to briefly trained and skittish citizens the best strategy? Lieutenant General Pichet Wisaijorn, the Fourth Army commander in charge of security in a region fortified by miles of razor wire and tons of sandbag bunkers, contends that there's no alternative to a weapons buildup...
The bill, which has been considered in committee on several occasions prior to Tuesday’s hearing, would amend the current law on emissions standards set up by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection by adding a new paragraph stipulating that “any city or town...may...
According to the Rhodes Trust Web site, the criteria used for selecting Scholars are “literary and scholastic attainments, energy to use one’s talents to the full, truth, courage, devotion to duty, sympathy for and protection of the weak, kindliness, unselfishness and fellowship, moral force...
Admittedly, I would rather have these rules than no rules, but the episode is a good reminder of how difficult it can be to pass effective financial regulation, even for something as minor and clearly exploitative as overdraft protection services. It doesn’t make you optimistic about ever...
Once obsessing about kids' safety and success became the norm, a kind of orthodoxy took hold, and heaven help the heretics - the ones who were brave enough to let their kids venture outside without Secret Service protection. Just ask Lenore Skenazy, who to this day, when you Google "America's...