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Still, a half-century of general prosperity in the U.S. has created a climate of toleration, if not enthusiasm, for the free-trade gospel--mostly, indeed, as a gospel of our civic religion rather than out of anyone's buying the math. Alarm about imports tends to ebb and flow with the economy--less in good times, more in bad. So how, in the best times ever, did the World Trade Organization become the global bogeyman? No earnest college kid ever hitched across the country to carry a picket sign against the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade...
...competitive imperative," said Brian Bohling, a senior vice president at staffing giant CDI Corp. in a report, The New Nomads. Besides saving money on benefits, firms prize the flexibility of keeping only a small core of full-timers and ramping up for specific projects. Silicon Valley, with the ebb and flow of its product cycles, relies heavily on permatemps; a new report shows the temp industry has been California's leading job creator for the past five years. No wonder the Information Technology Association of America says the Microsoft ruling would "serve to undermine the information economy...
...characters in "Schindler's List" and "Sophie's Choice." Meanwhile, Germany's Green party, the junior partner in Chancellor Schroeder's coalition government, called for a temporary halt to bombing to give diplomacy a chance. "The administration is emphasizing the plight of the refugees in order to stop an ebb in public support for the bombing," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "The public isn't opposed to the bombing as long as we aren't taking casualties, but they won't let it go on forever...
While not every student has participated in high school or Little League baseball, most American students have experienced the familiar ebb and tide of the summer pennant race...
...Crime to me, dark social history, ebb andflow of dark events, the near psychopathic,semi-psychopathic, the leg-breakers of history area voice for me to express my moral concernsbecause these are men who paid morally for theirdark deeds. I am first and last and always amoralist. They are the means for me to recreatehistory to my own specifications, but I am notthem.There is a definite distinction betweenmost writers and their work. Because the work is,in the end, as it is in my case, a work ofimagination, with the exception of thenon-fiction...