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- noun US politics The economic policies of the Richard Nixon administration, 1969-1974.
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In the summer of 1969, I wrote a memorandum for my White House colleagues using the term Nixonomics to hail the ingenious replacement of the Democrats '
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As I read it, one of the major thrusts of Nixonomics is to slow down foreign investment and to curtail the production of goods in foreign countries by American corporations.
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Rorschach's stoic existentialism, the Comedian's marked cynicism, the Nite Owl's defeatist apathy, Dr. Manhattan's utter inhuman disconnect, and the Silk Spectre's selfish wish that the problems would simply go away serve not only as perfect reflections of the "Nixonomics" (p2 / vol8) of
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The -omics suffix is most comfortable following an n: you often heard Nixonomics, Reaganomics and Clintonomics but not Fordomics, Carteromics or Bushomics.
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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The -omics suffix is most comfortable following an n: you often heard Nixonomics, Reaganomics and Clintonomics but not Fordomics, Carteromics or Bushomics.
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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Perhaps the very cruelty of Nixonomics will at last awaken Canadians to seek their own road and to build their own future.
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But with the age of Nixonomics, it appears that the time has come to pay.
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For a number of years, inflation has been a major problem for the American economy regardless of whether it was Nixonomics, Fordonomics, Carternomics, or Reaganomics that was being discussed in the Oval Office.
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Walter Heller, a father of the "new economics," was quoted in Time magazine in November 1969, using Nixonomics disparagingly.
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Richard Nixon had been President of the United States for only a few months when Nixonomics was coined as a label for his economic policies.
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