Word: accords
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NAFTA, which would create a market of 360 million consumers, still does not have a clear presidential imprint. The Clinton Administration, even at this late hour, has not advanced with clear, unswerving support for the accord. NAFTA's opponents are smelling blood, the kind that gushes from sacrificial victims on the altar of political expediency...
...economic integration. NAFTA also has the potential to help rouse the global economy from its present malaise. The consumer benefits from unhampered global trade are enormous. Even green groups stand to profit. The $130 billion a-year environmental clean up industry stands to benefit from the ratification of the accord...
...animals. The experience in the Northwest has taught policy planners to focus not on individual species but on entire ecosystems. And a determination to avoid the protracted court battles that deadlocked the owls-loggers dispute has spurred the Administration to bring together industries, environmental groups and local governments. An accord to protect the Southern California breeding grounds of the endangered gnatcatcher was reached in March by local developers, environmentalists and the state government. One month later, the Fish and Wildlife Service entered into an unprecedented arrangement with Georgia-Pacific Corp., which agreed to conserve the habitat of the endangered...
...ruling that may kill chances for congressional passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement, U.S. District Judge Charles Richey ruled that the accord cannot be submitted to Congress until the government prepares an environmental impact statement on such matters as whether increased manufacturing on the U.S. border with Mexico might lead to increased pollution. The delay will give opponents more time to organize and push the controversial vote into a congressional election year. "My fear is that NAFTA is finished unless this ruling is overturned," fretted Missouri Senator John Danforth...
Porter rejected the avant-gardist piety that the empirically painted figure or landscape was dead. It simply didn't accord with his convictions about how art relates to experience and conveys its "density," a favorite word. Nowhere does his work show a sign of the metaphysical yearnings of the New York school, still less its primitivism. Porter's was very much a modernist vision, but classically so; its main source was Paris, and its exemplars were the great Intimists Pierre Bonnard and Edouard Vuillard. From them, as Agee notes in his catalog essay, Porter learned to "paint what you know...