Word: americanizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...While Clinton promised American voters that he'd end "politics as usual," he quietly went off to Wall Street and assured the corporate pooh-bahs that he'd protect and expand business-as-usual. He promised to safeguard and open up markets for corporate America, run a fiscally tight ship and prepare the nation's workforce and corporations to win the globalization game...
...from Asia, or pressing China to make a host of concessions to specific U.S. corporations in exchange for WTO membership or leaning on South Africa over importing AIDS drugs from foreign sources that sold them cheaper than U.S. pharmaceutical corporations, the Clinton administration has always been on point for American business. Candidate Clinton may have pilloried President Bush for being too soft on China, but President Clinton has for the most part followed suit, viewing China more as a market rather than as foreign policy competitor...
...Despite Clinton's sunny win-win beliefs, environmental interests often clash directly with those of business. And while American labor rails against sweatshop conditions in developing countries and gets the President's sympathy, many of those sweatshops are actually manufacturing goods for American corporations...
...reason that cheap labor is all many of them have to offer in the world economy, and enforcing minimum standards may actually destroy hundreds of thousands of jobs in the developing world. Why would a U.S. apparel manufacturer have its wares manufactured in China if it had to pay American-level wages? So just as what's good for business isn't always good for all of society, what's good for the American worker isn't always good for the Indonesian worker...
...most of the hot issues." Notably, the President is pushing the WTO to open its doors to public scrutiny and accept peaceful protests as integral aspects of its existence. He's fervently opposed to trade barriers, but he also wants to ensure a degree of job protection for American workers. He wants to keep U.S. policy toward sea turtles intact throughout the world, but balks when European countries move to protect their own policies banning the importation of genetically engineered food...