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...between Europe and the child sex trade in Bangkok. Last year the group disclosed the existence of a Swiss network of airline-ticket agencies catering to European pedophiles; one was shut down. Then last August the task force focused on Lauda Air, the Austrian-based airline owned by former auto-racing champ Niki Lauda, for running a caricature in its in-flight magazine that allegedly promoted child sex tourism...
When the Clinton Administration last week uncorked a tough new approach aimed at cracking Japan's trade barriers to computers, auto parts and other imports, top officials in Tokyo immediately rejected the policy as "unrealistic." To which Laura D'Andrea Tyson, chair of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, calmly remarked to a colleague, "That's good. It shows they fear that we're on to something that will get results...
Throughout the Fanueil Hall forum, Gore likened the federal government to a business in need of reaming. He used the U.S. auto industry as an example of a large corporation which has successfully rebuilt itself and become less management-centered...
...years ago, if we were here in Fanueil Hall and someone said, 'In 1993 the American auto industry will have reinvented itself ... most of us--me included--would have said, 'I don't think so,'" Gore said...
...auto industry did manage to improve radically, Gore said, eliminating middle managers and empowering lower-level employees. Likewise, he said, the government can radically improve in coming years--despite lingering doubts...