Word: agreement
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...Clinton may not be altogether bad for Al Gore, and the Seattle debacle may, in fact, work to the vice president's advantage: The Clinton administration's tough talk on labor rights won support from union leaders, and the summit's failure means there's no trade-talk framework agreement for the vice president to defend against Democratic party skeptics. U.S. trade representative Charlene Barshefsky, who chaired the Seattle talks, closed the conference Friday calling for a "time out" in the talks, and for the next year at least the principals may slow things down as U.S. elections loom...
...There's wasn't a definite agreement, but I can't imagine the masters won't take [the House Committee vote] into account," Seton says...
...course he's had no trouble convincing corporate America to sign on to that idea, but he's struggled elsewhere. His tussle with labor organizations over the NAFTA agreement resulted in many Democrats on Capitol Hill colluding with Republicans in stripping Clinton of his right to negotiate "fast-track" trade agreements. He's increasingly faced opposition on both sides of the aisle to free trade policies, which have left him vulnerable to populist attack. "Pat Buchanan complains that both parties are now too pro-business, and that resonates with some people," says Branegan. Because as Seattle showed, there are many...
...predecessor before 1994, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)), have indeed been helpful in expanding trade on a broad front. But trade policy has its low side as well--a battle of narrow interests posturing as national or even international interests. The AFL-CIO is keen to keep out manufactured goods that developing countries can successfully export to the U.S., whether textiles from very low-wage countries or steel from Korea, Brazil and Russia. It marches in Seattle under the hypocritical (or to be more generous, simply erroneous) claim that it represents the interests of the world...
...guards left," Billy says. "About 27 out of 54 guards I'd say. Either they were old, or they took some money and got away. It was a lot of money, maybe $13,000, but that's not a year's worth of work. In the long run, the agreement wasn't worth the paper it was printed on." Harvard replaced the vacated positions with subcontracted workers from Security Systems Incorporated (SSI). Instead of the traditional black Harvard uniform, they wear bright white shirts with an SSI badge. "They gave us a contract with no raise for four years, across...