Word: cheap
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...causes were confused in the protests at Seattle: those who wanted environmental protections integrated into trade agreements were accompanied by those who dumped foreign steel into the ocean for the crime of being too cheap. The perception of a U.S. in favor of free trade only where it serves our interests could doom any attempt to improve environmental and labor standards abroad and must be addressed in our negotiating tactics...
...trade 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...
Still, it's too early to count out the embargo's tenacious Cuban-American lobby. Its chief muscle is in the House, where efforts similar to Ashcroft's have been killed this year. "Trading with the most anti-American dictator in the world is a cheap, cynical manipulation of farmers' emotions," said Jorge Mas, head of the Cuban-American National Foundation in Miami. Besides powerful Republican Senator Jesse Helms--who tightened the embargo in 1996 after Castro's air force shot down two small U.S. civilian planes near Havana--Mas has two other key allies: presidential contenders George W. Bush...
...year-olds with computers have a TV in the same room. But the knock against "interactive TV" has been that it's an oxymoron; no one's agitating for a choose-your-own-adventure version of Martial Law. webRIOT hopes to score with a sort of cheap-'n'-dirty, Scud-missile interactivity. The game (accessible at www.mtv.com requires no special hardware or complicated interface; players simply use the keyboard as a buzzer. And, notes MTV programming head Brian Graden, successful game shows already have an "interactive" element: yelling at the TV. "They create the illusion that you are faster...
...should surprise no one that, as Dunn notes, Lenin had a statue of Robespierre erected in Moscow in 1918. (Made of cheap stone, it soon crumbled, as the Soviet Union would some 70 years later.) Sister Revolutions shows not only how the French and American experiments developed, but also why their differing examples have continued to beguile ambitious leaders...