Word: bhagwati
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pressures in both countries threatened to bar any immediate settlement. For a struggling President Clinton, the get-tough sanctions promised to shore up his support in crucial industrial states such as Michigan and Ohio. "No U.S. politician ever lost at the polls by bashing Japan," says trade expert Jagdish Bhagwati, a Columbia University economist. And the political price? "So we lose the Lexus and Infiniti vote," shrugs a senior Administration official. "It's a risk we're prepared to take...
...Jagdish Bhagwati, professor of economics at Columbia University, warned in Friday's Wall Street Journal that "if a nation's trading rights can be suspended simply because it refuses to accept another nation's idiosyncratic values, everyone could insist on morality-driven trade restrictions and the whole international trade system would head down a slippery slope." He also sagely urged us to examine whether "environmental regulations are really protectionism in disguise...
...Mark Brevers (C), 15-11, 16-3, 14-18, 9-15, 16-15; 5. Jon Karlen (H) d. John Mao (C), 12-15, 15-8, 15-14, 15-8; 6. Jon Masland (H) d. In Kim (C), 15-4, 15-7, 15-8. 7. Josh Horwitz (H) d. Anuj Bhagwati (C), 15-7, 15-8, 15-5; 8. Raja Mahidhara (H) d. Clayton Sparks (C), 15-6, 15-1, 15-6; 9. Bobby Greenhill (H) d. Swapnil Shah...