Word: arens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...global economic integration, led by multinational companies, gathers momentum, a popular backlash is building. Protesters aren't against trade, but they want corporation-friendly rules to include social concerns--the environment, labor rights, Third World poverty. And they want it now. More than 775 nongovernment organizations have registered with the WTO, bringing some 2,100 observers. "The WTO is an octopus with an arm into every little crevice of democracy," says Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch lobby. "It trumps domestic laws and international treaties and imposes one-size-fits-all rules...
...definite decision to run for Mrs. Clinton to win next November. New Yorkers are a cynical lot, and Mrs. Clinton's apparent flip-flopping on Middle East questions - and her carefully scripted exchange with teacher's union president Randi Weingarten Monday, in which Weingarten supposedly cajoled Clinton into announcing - aren't likely to impress. So the real question isn't where Hillary lives, but whether she's ready to rumble...
...holiday season as the lighting of the tree at Rockefeller Center: the annual airline price gouge. And on Tuesday, Delta and American airlines, two of the nation's largest carriers, decided to keep with tradition and hiked their fares an average of 3 percent on domestic routes. Customers aren't likely to be sympathetic to the airlines' cries over rising fuel costs, which is the primary reason cited by Delta and American for their fare increases - nor should they necessarily believe it. "This is the time of year when airlines have enormous control over pricing," says TIME business writer Bernard...
...Plenty of them were looking forward to big salaries once they'd finished their years in green, learning computers or communications or whatever. The commercials aren't all lies, at least, not so far - you can use this place to get someplace else. It's not a last resort. Yes, it's for trailer trash and teenage urban desperadoes, out of options and desperate for a job and some health insurance for families they'd started way too early. But it's also for 18-year-old troublemakers from Houston looking for a head start on a career...
...PAST DISPATCHES He's in the Army Now. Well, Almost... Sgt. Bilko Was Much More Fun Than These Guys Hey! These Sweat Suits Aren't Camouflaged! Yes, Sergeant ? It Is Night and I Am Jogging These Boots Weren't Made for Marching