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...wants to press the WTO to adopt labor standards and environmental standards, but refuses to discuss standards on intellectual property and anti-dumping rules. The developing countries want it just the other way around. In a fair world, we'd consider all of these questions in a serious, transparent and careful way, with a deep attention to the concerns of the poorest countries, who live at just one hundredth of the dollar incomes enjoyed by Americans...
...Nobody is telling districts that they have to adopt certain programs for all kids," Leinwand said...
Giebfried said the role of peer pressure and media images in teenagers who begin to smoke is particularly alarming, and praised the commitment by the Boston Globe not to run smoking ads this month. He said groups are trying to pressure the Boston Herald to adopt the same policy...
Badaracco said the ACSR also spent a considerable amount of time on environmental issues. Much of the discussion centered on proposals that asked companies to adopt the corporate code of conduct established by the Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies (Ceres...
Regardless, maybe successful companies should just adopt the following enlightened policy: be nice to competitors on e-mail. After all, Microsoft was so darn pugnacious towards Netscape in some of its internal memoranda! Pretend the market is a touchy-feely place. Sanitize the weeping and gnashing of teeth that economist Joseph Schumpeter identified as crucial to a market's quintessential process of "creative destruction." And above all, be sensitive--you should be well within your rights if you do all that, correct...