Two leading ' think tanks ' in Washington were active in holding seminars and publishing studies advocating deregulatory initiatives throughout the 1970s and 1980s .
Two leading ' think tanks ' in Washington are the Brookings Institution and the American Enterprise Institute .
Two leading ' think tanks ' in Washington , the Brookings Institution and the American Enterprise Institute , were active in holding seminars and publishing studies advocating deregulatory initiatives throughout the 1970s and 1980s .