Word: restrictionist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...protested that it was a backward-looking move that might jeopardize years of patient progress toward lower tariffs. Wilson's rebuttal was contained in his next major policy pronouncement, a detailed White Paper emphasizing that the solution to Britain's economic ills does not lie in "oldfashioned, restrictionist ideas," as he puts it, but in stem-to-stern reform of backward industries and restrictive labor practices...
Fleming, who is about to bring in the government's new budget, insisted: "Mr. Coyne's continuation in office would stand in the way of a comprehensive, sound and responsible economic program. The government's policy is expansionist. The policies advocated by Mr. Coyne are restrictionist-restrictive of trade, of production, of jobs...