Word: abroader
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Senate may soon be hearing a proposal that airlines and airports take special measures to educate passengers about the 1994 sex-tourism law, which prohibits Americans from traveling abroad for sex with minors. It is punishable by 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. "We are weeding out the hard-core child molesters who get on planes, spend thousands of dollars and rape these children," says Jim Nagle, the senior U.S. customs agent investigating sex tourism. "Are we being the world's sex police? No. But if you're an American who is violating this law, we will...
...professor. "I thought he was one of God's marvels," said Juan Antonio Ramirez, now 18. "Since he was so nice, I did it from the bottom of my heart...I'm ashamed, but the truth is the truth." Hersh is the first American to be prosecuted for traveling abroad to have sex with a minor. According to Juan's testimony, he befriended the boy's family, gave the children Gameboys and a toy helicopter, and paid the rent. But prosecutors say he also molested Juan, then 14, and two of Juan's brothers after inviting them to his hotel...
Ironically, it's the notion of surprise. The market now values accelerating growth over consistent growth. Starting in the mid-1980s, investors became wary of U.S. industrial and cyclical companies like U.S. Steel and Phelps Dodge, which faced withering competition from abroad. At the same time though, U.S. household brands like Gillette and Nike held sway at home and won new markets abroad. No matter how tough the Japanese competed, you never wore Mitsubishi sneakers or shaved with Sumitomo blades. The top U.S. consumer brands showed consistent growth year after year...
...reliance on foreign oil spawns problems abroad like the morass the nation has been drawn into in the Middle East. In addition to our economic vulnerability to OPEC policy and our morally questionable military entanglements, we contribute heftily to the economies of some quite un-democratic nations in the region with our oil purchases. Oil exploration has also led to other (underpublicized) foreign affairs debacles like the virtual plunder of Ecuador by Texaco and Shell's appalling exploitation of Nigerian oil in cooperation with the despotic government...
...currently, our prices are far below those of other industrial nations--would prod the auto industry and consumers towards the nascent inevitable revolution of efficient vehicles. It's time for the US to abandon its dirty policies which have marked the 20th century: polluting the planet and supporting oppression abroad...