Word: smoot
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...presidential talents notwithstanding, Hoover's one term administration proved astoundingly incompetent. Ever the tinkerer, when the Crash of '29 struck, he strove to intervene, mounting what "progressive" economists dubbed "a new attack on poverty." Big businesses were prodded to keep wages high, resulting in massive, intractable unemployment. The infamous Smoot-Hawley tariff was enacted, leading to the implosion of international trade. And tax rates were hiked drastically on both incomes and profits, driving the private sector ever further into...
...Gore didn't give Perot the economics debate he wanted, instead targeting Perot's obvious weak spot: his temperament. With King obliging as ever, Gore dredged up the disastrous (and catchily named) Smoot-Hawley tariff of 1930, a facile comparison of eras that worked perfectly. Gore handed Perot a framed picture of the pair; he interrupted Perot incessantly, made him lose his temper. Gore's decisive victory was the saving of NAFTA and the beginning of the end of Perot as even a semi-serious public figure...
...There's a perception of Dartmouth as a male-dominated school that is not a place for all women, just for really strong women who can take it," said Margaret W. Smoot, a junior who was one of five student members of the Committee...
Parties are held at fraternity houses only, so "there is still a sense that we come to them," Smoot said...
Students and administrators want to know "whether or not Dartmouth can become a school where clusters are the focus of social life," Smoot said...