Word: blocked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...negotiators in a panic. And with good reason. Within hours of the paper hitting the streets, delegations representing developing countries had dug in their heels, convinced that the world's most powerful trading nation planned to deny many of them their only competitive advantage - cheap labor. They vowed to block any progress on further trade liberalization, and claimed victory when the conference ended in failure late Friday. "Protesters weren't the key element that destroyed the Seattle talks," says TIME correspondent Andrew Zagorin. "The meeting collapsed less because of what was happening outside in the streets than because of what...
...Despite the best "what-the-President-meant" spin efforts of his trade negotiating team, the specter of labor conditions being used as a reason to block imports to the U.S. from developing countries prompted their leaders to block any progress. In the end, Washington was unable to win even the relatively nebulous commitment - agreed upon by its most important rival trading bloc, the European Union - to form a WTO working group on the issue of labor rights. Thus the pitfalls of an organization whose decision-making process demands absolute consensus...
Williams dribbled into the high post, where sophomore point guard Drew Gellert picked him up and jumped to block his shot. But Williams switched to his left hand in midair and flipped the game-winner around Gellert's outstretched arms...
Precisely. In Germany, once the most militaristic society on earth, you can now get a perfect cappuccino on every block. And Germans have become as aggressive as Caspar Milquetoast. The Russians? Moscow has turned into latte land, and so the remnants of the Red Army cannot even overwhelm a bunch of bedraggled Chechens. Why does Israel, a modern-day democratic Sparta, talk withdrawal from Lebanon? Just count the espresso machines on Tel Aviv's Shenkin Street...
...Another stumbling block is the small scale of the production. Barely a face graces the screen that does not belong to one of the three main characters, and the bulk of the film was shot on just a few sets, adding to the sense of claustrophobia. The smallness of the movie goes beyond that, though--in what is intended to be a pivotal scene, Bendrix rushes out of his house to catch Sarah before she leaves town. But instead of sprinting down the streets in a romantic dash to his beloved, he just trots across a little patch of greenery...