Word: defendents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gore, and the Seattle debacle may, in fact, work to the vice president's advantage: The Clinton administration's tough talk on labor rights won support from union leaders, and the summit's failure means there's no trade-talk framework agreement for the vice president to defend against Democratic party skeptics. U.S. trade representative Charlene Barshefsky, who chaired the Seattle talks, closed the conference Friday calling for a "time out" in the talks, and for the next year at least the principals may slow things down as U.S. elections loom...
Despite its other matches on Saturday, Cornell was the clear focus of the day for both Crimson teams as they continued their campaign to defend their Ivy Championships...
...John S. McCain (R-Ariz.) the winner of the debate, perhaps because he alone refused to hit Bush below the belt and instead specifically articulated his ideas. McCain also demonstrated a strong command of the issues with detailed proposals and considered positions. Bush, on the other hand, failed to defend adequately his tax cut under attacks from Forbes and others. Most of the other candidates failed to distinguish themselves from the crowd, despite a valiant effort from Alan L. Keyes...
...products he designed himself. The son of the founder--feisty at 83--still runs the company and eats in the cafeteria with everybody else. The client enjoys a very strong position in the market for their main products, but recognizes a need to focus on high-tec products to defend their market position. They have brought in the PRTM, consultants to technology industry, to find a way for the client to translate its considerable strength into new, high tech businesses. Like most jobs that PRTM takes, this one involves sending a small group of consultants to work at the client...
...summit. An impossibly broad coalition of activists - ranging from anarchists to environmentalists and the pillars of U.S. organized labor - have condemned the WTO as a forum of corporate interests with growing power to overrule national governments on such issues as protecting the environment and labor rights. Free trade advocates defend the organization as the harbinger of unprecedented global prosperity...