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NAFTA is important, however, primarily for reasons going beyond its own economic effects. Its rejection by the U.S. could topple a much bigger domino: a proposed agreement to promote freer trade among the more than 100 members of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade could die. That would abort an expansion of world trade that many nations are counting on to help end the recession afflicting the industrial world. The U.S. would be especially hurt: the GATT agreement contains protections for "intellectual property" (patents, copyrights) that American exporters sorely need but do not now have...
...most frenzied mine-is-bigger-than-yours competition is among pizza makers. Domino's claims the largest entry with its Dominator -- a 30-in.-long, 2.08-sq.-ft., 30-slice slab of dough, cheese and toppings. It's the first Domino's pizza that won't be delivered by the company's swift red-and-blue- uniformed workers; customers will have to cart the monster home themselves. Fighting it out for second place are Little Caesar's Big! Big! Cheese and Pizza Hut's Bigfoot, both roughly 2 sq. ft. Says Rob Doughty, a Pizza Hut vice president for marketing...
Just when we had gotten so grumpy we stopped speaking to each other, one of the guys pointed out that if we phoned the nearest Domino's and ordered a large pepperoni delivered to U-Haul in Somerville, we could simply follow the delivery boy and find not only our destination but a hot pizza there to greet...
...ended up back at Domino's, eating our pizza while squatting on the curb of the parking lot. When we finally found U-Haul it was closed, but by then we were laughing so hard we didn't care...
...problem, but it wasn't nearly as much fun. It's sad to think that a lot of people go through life that way, just getting things done and never taking time out to eat pizza in a parking lot or drag race in a moving van with Domino's deliverers...