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Deciding to Use Force in Grenada

Publication Date: January 01, 1986

In late October 1983, United States military forces landed on the Caribbean island-nation of Grenada—the first time U.S. forces had intervened in their own hemisphere in a generation. The United States' immediate concern was the safety of...

Shrinking the Policy Process: The Press and the 1980 Love Canal Relocation

Publication Date: January 01, 1985

This case tells the story of the decision of the Carter administration to relocate 710 families from the area in and around an abandoned canal that had been used as a dumping ground for toxic wastes in the 1940s and 1950s. It focuses on the...

Press and the Neutron Bomb: Summary Intro

Publication Date: February 01, 1984

In June 1977, a page-one Washington Post story disclosed that the Carter administration budget contained funding for production of enhanced radiation warheads: the so-called neutron bomb. In April 1978, following mass protests in several West...

Ronald Reagan and Tax Exemptions for Racist Schools (Abridged)

Publication Date: January 01, 1984

In January 1982, the Reagan administration reversed a Nixon-era policy, the effect of which would grant tax exemptions to racially discriminatory schools. The change was developed by lawyers at the Treasury and Justice Departments, who believed...

Ronald Reagan and Tax Exemptions for Racist Schools

Publication Date: January 01, 1984

In January 1982, the Reagan administration reversed a Nixon-era policy, the effect of which would grant tax exemptions to racially discriminatory schools. The change was developed by lawyers at the Treasury and Justice Departments, who believed...

Future of Los Alamos City Electric Utility System (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 1984

The county of Los Alamos operates a small electric utility. Its largest customer, a national laboratory, faces intense pressure to reduce its payments-in-lieu-of-taxes to the county while at the same time it needs electricity at low cost to...

Future of Los Alamos City Electric Utility System

Publication Date: January 01, 1984

The county of Los Alamos operates a small electric utility. Its largest customer, a national laboratory, faces intense pressure to reduce its payments-in-lieu-of-taxes to the county while at the same time it needs electricity at low cost to...

Selling the Reorganization of the Post Office (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 1984

In 1969, President Nixon's Postmaster General, Winton Blount, set out to reorganize the Post Office by turning it into a government corporation. Aware that the Congress and the postal unions liked the old system, were well served by it, and...

Selling the Reorganization of the Post Office

Publication Date: January 01, 1984

In 1969, President Nixon's Postmaster General, Winton Blount, set out to reorganize the Post Office by turning it into a government corporation. Aware that the Congress and the postal unions liked the old system, were well served by it, and...

Paul A. Samuelson

Publication Date: January 01, 1983

This case offers a third portrait, one of an American Keynesian, to supplement those on John Maynard Keynes and Milton Friedman. Outlining his historical, national, economic, and educational background, and his experience with applied economics,...

Wage and Price Controls (B): The Nixon Controls

Publication Date: January 01, 1983

When inflation reached 18 percent in 1980, a groundswell of public opinion clamored for mandatory wage and price controls. President Carter steadfastly refused, citing consensus among government leaders and economists that America's previous...

Wage and Price Controls (A): The Debate in 1980

Publication Date: January 01, 1983

When inflation reached 18 percent in 1980, a groundswell of public opinion clamored for mandatory wage and price controls. President Carter steadfastly refused, citing consensus among government leaders and economists that America's previous...