Word: restrictionism
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Although Reagan's steel-import restriction plan does not involve direct Government expenditures, it will be costly: consumers will pay billions more for everything from automobiles to canned goods. Moreover, it may be a significant Administration nod toward protectionist trade policy (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS).
THE MOVE to change the law picked up support from two unlikely sources; the Daily Oklahoman and the Oklahoma Retail, Liquor Dealers Association. In 1972 and 1976, the newspaper, the state's largest, published seething front-page, editorials against changing the saloon restriction. This year, however, with the son of...
In Hollywood it was being kicked around as "Bo's boo-boo." And for a while it did appear that Bolero, the latest eyebrow-raiser starring the original 10, Bo Derek, 27, and directed by Husband John Derek, 58, might never be released. The reason: Israeli Executive Producers Menahem...
Ever since Congress passed the Communications Act of 1934, the broadcasting industry has chafed under increasingly heavy regulation. The reason: the air waves were considered to be a limited resource that needed to be carefully controlled by Government in the public interest. But last week the Federal Communications Commission (FCC...
The Corporation includes the same sorts of men it has for the last 100 years--wealthy, successful, middle-aged. The board tends to be dominated by lawyers and businessmen, but this changes from time to time, with professors, doctors, and clergymen occasionally taking their turn. In many ways the tone...