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...Bush Administration views a completed pact as a major accomplishment and as something to boast about in the fall campaign. Industry groups will evaluate terms of the agreement and offer recommendations before it goes to Congress, where the debate promises to be contentious. Some Democratic lawmakers charge that the pact lacks safeguards for American jobs and want programs to retrain displaced workers and protect the environment. Congress is expected to delay serious discussion until after the elections and then put the deal to a vote sometime early next year...
...Boast about high A.D.A. ratings...
...buildings where the taxis line up. Hard-strapped Russians can't afford to take cabs. The collapse of the Soviet Union has unleashed a surprising entrepreneurial streak in the more than 32,000 skilled Vietnamese laborers "stranded" there. More than 4,000 Vietnamese residents of Moscow now boast net worths of more than $100,000. Some are investing their earnings in lavish houses and businesses back home. A Vietnamese commercial center has opened in town to provide office space and services for companies dealing in everything from rice and caviar to fashions. Quips a thriving entrepreneur: "Doing business in Russia...
HARVARD SQUARE, you're no Hollywood. Mass. Ave. is certainly not Sunset Boulevard; The Harvard Square Theater can't boast the same "Avenue of Stars" outside of Mann's Chinese Theater. And while star-watching might be rewarding at Wolfgang Puck's chic L.A. restaurant, Spago, it won't yield successful results at The Tasty...
...ways so similar, so driven, so high-test-scores smart, so blue-suit sincere that it once seemed inevitable that their ambitions for the White House would collide. Consider the dualities: both are new-ideas moderates with a policy wonk's love of the intricacies of complex issues; both boast blue-ribbon educational pedigrees and are not ashamed to show it; both are Southern Baptists who married strong, assertive blond women; and both, having achieved political success early in life, have never made a secret of their zeal for higher office. In fact, Clinton almost jumped into the 1988 presidential...