Word: across
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More important, however, the protesters' demands represented an assumption that President Clinton seemed to share, an assumption responsible in large part for the failure of the conference: that U.S. labor and environmental standards are equally desired across the globe. The U.S. no longer possesses, if it ever did, the ability to impose unilaterally its standards on the rest of the world. For developing nations to choose to implement such standards, the measures must be seen more as a means to improve their own welfare than as an outgrowth of American self-interest...
...administration has] been talking about centralized technical services across College libraries," O'Brien said. "They're looking for ways to perhaps consolidate--which they are avoiding coming out and saying will result in job loss. We're very skeptical and afraid about that...
...these conditions exist across the globe...
...PSLM) anti-sweatshop campaign has fought to turn Harvard and its apparel licensing from an appendage of corporate America into a weapon against globalization without representation--the WTO's brand of trade. Because the sweatshirts, baseball caps and T-shirts that bear our schools' names are made in sweatshops across the globe, we can fight international injustice where we live, and bring attention to the realities that the WTO ignores...
...always will be the incredible freedoms we understand in the great land called America," and other generalities from his stump speech, but said nothing about Acheson. John McCain took the opportunity to jump in with a supposedly knowledgeable comment about Acheson, but more important, the senator came across as easily the more comfortable in dealing with questions...