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...country of 78 million people with an 88 percent literacy rate remains an alluring investment opportunity for U.S. business, even if the pace of reforming its archaic communist economy has been slow. Vietnam's communist leaders want U.S. investment more than ever, now that the early promise of turning the country into a new "Asian Tiger" economy has faded somewhat in a mire of bureaucratic red tape. Foreign investment, which amounted to more than $8 billion a year, or one third of the country's GNP, in the mid-'90s, has slowed recently, and a trade agreement signed with...
...noted evangelist Pat Robertson, which claimed that the domestic partnerships recognized by the Cambridge ordinance were "a Trojan Horse for same-sex marriage." However, while McHugh rejected this claim, noting that the Cambridge statute intended only "to provide a better life for those who daily serve its citizens," an archaic 1955 Massachusetts statute limiting insurance benefits to workers' spouses and children prevented him from upholding the Cambridge ordinance. It is high time that this statute be amended or repealed...
...true with all of his campaign proposals, Bush advocates the increased role of the individual in the political process. Rather than living under the archaic limits set in 1976, Bush is proposing to properly adjust the personal contribution limit for inflation by raising it from $1,000 to $3,000 in each election period. This change reflects the focus on the individual as a decision-maker in the political process; it takes control of election funding out of the hands of corporate and union bosses and returns it to individuals...
...TIME: Wasn't he following the famous Mexican rule : Blame it on the former president?" SALINAS: Yes, Zedillo revived that archaic tradition...
...surgical abortion will be available on the rare occasion that the pill fails, thereby virtually limiting the number of doctors who can dispense the drug to the same number who already perform abortions. Moreover, physicians wishing to prescribe RU-486 must comply with a broad range of often archaic state laws regulating surgical abortions; laws whose stipulations are often difficult to apply to this radical new approach to the procedure...