Word: abroader
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...Kathie Lee makes good on that threat by tearing up her contract with yet another sweatshop, will her actions have an impact in the grand scheme of workers? rights? Eventually, says TIME senior economics reporter Bernard Baumohl. "There?s an inexorable trend toward better working conditions in factories abroad. It?s part and parcel of the globalization process." These days, Baumohl explains, when a U.S.-based company sends manufacturing contracts abroad, it is expected, and sometimes required, to pay a reasonable wage for services rendered. In countries highly dependent on foreign contracts, an increase in manufacturing-job salaries means...
...President's pontifications came as a presidential commission into national security released gloomy findings Monday on the growing series of threats from abroad that may harm ? and kill ? Americans at home in the next century. "The U.S. needs a strong and effective United Nations to deal with problems such as terrorism," says Dowell. Even Kosovo couldn?t be resolved without bringing it back to the U.N. Paying its outstanding $1 billion dues backlog to the U.N. ?- which President Clinton promised Tuesday to press for ?- may help the U.S. reclaim its natural leadership role in the organization...
There is a certain logic to it: at the end of a decade of American triumphalism abroad and prosperity at home, we could be seeking to upsize our personalities, our sense of ourselves. Perhaps we as a people are acting out our success as a nation, in a manner unfelt since the postwar...
...father says, emerging from the house. And so are Jesse's two brothers, Lim adds with regret. Jesse, outed as a tough guy, tells all to the cops, a quiver in his throat. If he goes to jail instead of going on the Mormon mission abroad that he's been counting on, Lim says, it's his own fault. "I sure wish I understood what this Straight Edge was all about...
Money managers call it the doomsday scenario, forseeing an event that could wipe out investor portfolios and wreak havoc on the stock market. The danger stems not from new financial woes erupting abroad but from something happening here. It is the explosive growth in margin debt--loans Americans take out to buy stocks. Margin debt has shot up to $180 billion at midyear, a 25% increase in just six months and by far the most ever recorded. It now accounts for 1.2% of the stock market's total capitalization...