Word: dealing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...They must be given rules, and when they break the rules they must be punished. What could be fairer than that? As His Honor has so profoundly said, "Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what...
...difference of opinion between Main Street and the Beltway. American citizens turned their back on a nation they judged morally and politically beyond the pale, and public opinion has yet to recover. But policymakers couldn't quite do the same, recognizing that the U.S. had no option but to deal with China. Its rising power made it a force to be reckoned with, like it or not. And so Clinton, after some I'll-do-it-different demagoguery of his own, became the sixth President since Richard Nixon opened the way in 1972, to practice "constructive engagement" with China...
...whole mess is certain to devolve into a nasty court battle that until very recently only Dunlap's fiercest critics could have imagined. Along with perhaps half a dozen shareholder suits stemming from the stock collapse, and litigation with the American Medical Association over a botched endorsement deal, Sunbeam expects a lawsuit from Dunlap seeking a going-away package...
...Hemingway lore and mystical guff about fishing, and weary, in addition, of all too believable accounts of alcoholic decline, might tune in to Championship Bowling and leave Lorian Hemingway's memoir on the nightstand. Fair enough, but Walk on Water (Simon and Schuster; 250 pages; $23), though it does deal with booze and fishing addictions (the first deadly, the second a kind of soul's balancing act, said to be curative), is chiefly the record of a writer growing up and learning her trade...
...China. More consultation with Beijing wouldn't hurt. But if the U.S. lets China into the WTO without insisting that Beijing abide by the same rules as everyone else, the entire global trading system could be jeopardized. Clinton should keep in mind that China needs us a good deal more than we need...