Word: protectionists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...everything shabby . . . in the American economy." It was not empty rhetoric, since Babbitt artfully used IBP as a bridge to dramatize his own detailed proposals for employee participation and "workplace democracy." Gephardt has long wooed Iowa union members and farmers with two pieces of special-interest legislation: a protectionist trade bill and an agricultural program that would raise crop prices. This give-them-what-they-want stance may make political sense, but it has also won Gephardt the enmity of editorial writers, including those at the Des Moines Register. In response, Gephardt lashed out at the "opinion centers, Wall Street...
Dole also laid out several other major tenets of his public policy, saying he is committed to preventing protectionist trade-legislation, to promoting right-to-life policies, and to enhancing the quality of American public schools...
...Trade is very important, and fear of protectionism was one thing that had equity markets unsettled. The Administration is totally committed to free trade, and the President has said he will veto protectionist trade bills now on the Hill...
Gephardt International. Another firm strengthened by the move toward technocratic competence, but its heavy exposure in protectionist trade issues could backfire...
...calculators and vaccines, tend to be small. But they make big waves in world trade. With the U.S. alone, Taiwan piled up a $16 billion surplus last year. That has stirred anger in Washington, which has forced Taiwan to raise the value of its currency, and is threatening protectionist retaliation because the country keeps its domestic market closed to U.S. imports...