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...girls stroll around the store for a while, trying to evade suspicion with their artificial nonchalance, but to no avail. Just as they think they're home free, the man in the yellow sweatshirt saunters down the ramp to the front door and politely requests that they follow him back inside...
...less attractive for us to go to a trade dispute on," admits USTR spokesman Jay Ziegler, referring to Lindner's political connections. "But the fact is, the banana dispute has evolved into a crucial test" of the enforceability of rulings by the World Trade Organization, which, to no avail, ordered the E.U. to drop its banana restrictions by Jan. 1. Rising concern about the U.S. trade deficit--up 50% in 1998 and expected to rise as much as 80% in 1999--has critics clamoring. Last month Senate majority leader Trent Lott, in a letter to President Clinton, warned...
...Howard immediately realized that using that word was a big mistake. The black guy he was talking to was sure he'd used the N word. Howard tried to explain that niggardly is a legitimate word meaning 'miserly' and has no racial connotation, to no avail. In a flash everybody in city hall thought Howard had called the black worker a you-know-what...
...nervous as well. If Pastrana's efforts fail to hold Colombia together--if the FARC solidifies its sovereignty over coca-land--the U.S. war on drugs in Colombia could unravel. Washington spends more than $100 million annually to help Colombia's national police destroy coca crops but to little avail--largely because the FARC earns 40% of its estimated $1 billion annual income from a tax it levies on coca farmers to protect their harvests from government eradication...
...also the first big-name Wall Streeter to predict the Great Crash of 1929. Indeed, in the months leading up to the Crash, Merrill pleaded (to no avail) with President Calvin Coolidge to speak out against speculation. By February 1929, Merrill was so sure the end was near that he liquidated his firm's stock portfolio, an act that made him famous in October, when the Crash finally came...