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Should Washington ever try to push APEC toward becoming an Asian NAFTA, the task will not be easy. Less developed Pacific nations are averse to any trade pact that might compel them to lower tariffs protecting fledgling industries. If Clinton shows up in Seattle without a win on NAFTA, Asian nations will also be under less pressure to deal; one reason for them even to consider a Pacific Rim trade group is to ensure themselves a defensive base in the event that GATT should fail or NAFTA take a protectionist turn. Thus the White House has been playing down this...
...says Volrad Wolny, a waste-management expert at Eco-Institute, an environmental watchdog organization. "Ecological awareness in Germany is very high." He says DSD executives gave guarantees they knew could not be met. "They knew they did not have the technology in place." Wolny and others want to compel producers to cut plastic packaging by up to 50%. And the Greens, meanwhile, feel the Green Dot gives their party a bad name. They would like to banish the misleading symbol altogether...
...George Bush -- to endorse the North American Free Trade Agreement. In a meeting with small- business owners, Clinton promised flexibility on some important elements of his health plan, especially on proposals that might harm small businesses. Earlier, House and Senate Republicans unveiled their own plan, which would not compel employers to cover workers and, they promised, would not require new taxes or insurance-premium caps...
Devoted viewers also crave the reassurance of the status quo. It's not just Rumpoles and films of elk that compel many PBS maniacs; rather, they like the sense of belonging to a tweedy club, of feeling urbane by virtue of the TV channel they watch. There are apparently fewer and fewer such people, however: between 1987 and 1992, public TV lost 22% of its prime-time audience, twice the decline of commercial networks...
...evaluations are not mandatory and it is difficult to see how they ever could be. It may be possible to compel a student to fill out a questionnaire, but it is extremely difficult to insure that he or she does so intelligently, thoughtfully and fairly. One need only drop the veil of the abstract and look at the real results of the present CUE system to see this. I taught 40 students last semester in two sections of Lit and Arts A-66 and received 20 CUE evaluations. Of those 20, two were blank on the rating side...