Word: carla
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...AWAY by Mary-Joan Gerson, illustrated by Carla Golembe (Little, Brown; $15.95). According to an ancient Nigerian tale, the sky was once so close to the earth that folks could take a bite. It was delicious. But people grew self-indulgent and wasteful, and the sky decided to seek revenge. This apt retelling is abetted by brilliant illustrations that seem to radiate their own heat and light...
...Shortest, but not least, is "Monster" Mikey Welch, a thirteenyear-old blues guitar prodigy who plays with the savvy of a bluesman twice or three times his age. This kid is barely old enough to have the blues, but he can wail through twelve bars like nobody's business. Carla Thomas, Joe Walsh, and the Blues Brothers Band wrap up the show with a rousing "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love." Jake would be proud...
...LOOKED TO U.S. TRADE NEGOTIATOR Carla Hills as if six years of tortuous bargaining to reach a global free-trade agreement were about to collapse over a mere hill of beans. Frustrated, she decided to risk it all by announcing that the U.S. would slap 200% tariffs on $300 million worth of European farm exports, notably white wine, if a deal were not concluded in a month. Suddenly, an all-out trade war between the U.S. and Europe seemed imminent...
...will probably fall to Bill Clinton to work out the details, since a final resolution is not likely before he takes office. In Little Rock, Arkansas, a spokesman warned that if foreign countries failed to open their markets, the U.S. would "get tough." Like Carla Hills before him, though, Bill Clinton can only hope that he never has to make good on the threat...
...jolt -- it is eight times as large as the other two combined -- but should enjoy an explosion in exports to Mexico. According to trade experts, those could increase substantially from a projected $40 billion this year, ultimately creating more and bigger American paychecks. Says U.S. Trade Representative Carla Hills: "For every billion dollars worth of exports, we gain 20,000 jobs." More important, she told a press conference last week, jobs in export industries pay on average 17% more than employment in the rest of the economy...