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The second reason the government has adopted such a laissez-faire attitude toward drug producers is an economic one.

“This guy is a real challenge to the whole libertarian-leaning laissez-faire political idea,” says Winters of Francis.

In an era when government oversight was almost nonexistent and laissez-faire capitalism was in its heyday, Kennedy excelled.

Given the distrust the military has for the press, it is surprising to see how laissez-faire the general is with Hastings.

Instead, he prefers an entirely laissez-faire approach to job-destroying financial crises.

And the maxim of laissez faire became the last word of social wisdom.

They knew perfectly well the laissez-faire relations which obtained between the two Westerners.

Mazzini carefully dissociated himself alike from the laissez-faire school and a despotic state socialism.

They represent the laissez faire doctrine as applied to advertising.

The period of laissez faire in imperial matters, of Little Englandism, drew to a close in the early eighties.

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On this page you'll find 190 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to laissez faire, such as: do-nothing policy, for the most, free enterprise, free hand, inaction, and indifference.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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