Word: effective
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What all these moves have in common--and there will be a parade of such initiatives from now until November--is that they are designed to cast the President in effect as the energetic young man standing in the rye, protecting our children from running over the cliff. It is a strategy designed to recast the image of government: instead of the supercilious bureaucrat with mountains of paper and regulations, government now becomes the safety-patrol volunteer, the lifeguard, the friendly cop on the beat buying a lost child an ice cream cone before calling his worried parents...
...would retaliate against protectionism. Pressed to explain the gap between his rhetoric and his record on China trade, Clinton told TIME, "Well, we could hurt them pretty bad, since we take about a third of China's exports. But I'm advised that wouldn't have the desired effect of opening their market, at least in the short term...
...tolerates China's cheating on trade, they will be locked out of the world's fastest-growing market. Boeing will still benefit as long as it has orders for planes--even if they are built by Chinese workers. Whether Clinton and the Congress intend it or not, the practical effect of their trade policy toward China, at least for now, is to defend the interests of some American shareholders over the interests of some American workers...
...court ruled in an 18-page decision that the city's 1991 ordinance to that effect was a violation of the First Amendment guarantee of free speech...
...prosecuted for child abuse if she takes drugs during pregnancy. South Carolina's Attorney General Charlie Condon called the ruling a "landmark decision for protecting children" and said he would charge prosecutors and social workers with enforcing the new law. While the ruling is unlikely to have a national effect because South Carolina has not been a bellwether in such court battles, TIME's Adam Cohen reports, it could easily be applied to the nation's most volatile issue. "If the state is going to rule that the fetus's rights take precedence over a mother's right to control...