Word: restrictionism
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The resultant restriction of the Houses to only two undergraduate classes clearly presages the death of the House system. It is often an academic necessity for seniors involved in the rigors of thesis research to withdraw for a substantial portion of the year from extra-curricular pursuits. The result, under...
Proposals adopted ranged from the one that advocated a Zero Population Growth resource policy" to a plan that suggested the restriction of the "explosive growth of consumption and environmental degradation."
SOVIET TRADE. Ford was similarly acerbic in protesting congressional insistence that improved trade relations with the Soviet Union must be conditioned upon greater freedom of emigration. He said that this restriction had been "self-defeating." Although he did not note that it too had been championed by his potential 1976...
Kissinger: The U.S., as the President said, will continue economic aid to South Viet Nam. It will continue that military aid which is permitted by the agreement. The U.S. is prepared to gear that military aid to the actions of other countries and not to treat it as an end...
Thankfully, Henry Fairlie, the British journalist who gave us the word "Establishment" as used in its modern capitalized sense, expanis the manipulation of language by politics without resorting to platitudes. Instead he concretely traces the changes in meaning words undergo as they are drafted into service by politicians and journalists...