Word: embargos
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...ever, Nepal's 26.5 million people are caught in the middle. "The Maoists have threatened to severely punish us if we defy the embargo," says Chitwan farmer Ashman Tamang. "But we'll starve if this continues...
...ordinary Haitians had become disenchanted with Aristide in recent months, it was largely because Aristide’s hadn’t delivered on his promises of poverty alleviation—promises he couldn’t keep thanks to the Bush Administration’s shameful foreign aid embargo...
...smaller companies were smart and lucky. Newmarket, unencumbered by the MPAA embargo, sent Academy members screeners of Monster and Whale Rider and was rewarded with Best Actress nominations for Charlize Theron and 13-year-old Keisha Castle-Hughes. Lions Gate flooded the membership with early screeners of Girl with a Pearl Earring (three arts-and-crafts citations) and The Cooler (a Supporting Actor nomination for Alec Baldwin...
...burgeoning bipartisan support Congress has shown this fall for lifting altogether the ban on travel to Cuba. The Bush Administration has been able to stall that effort for now--and as of Jan. 1 will outlaw exchange tours like John's in order to tighten the U.S. economic embargo of Cuba. The U.S. clampdown could initially cost Cuba 50,000 American visitors each year, the number now traveling there legally on visas like John's. But the 30,000 who go to Cuba illegally through third countries will probably continue to travel there, as will the 200,000 Cuban Americans...
...Clark suffers intermittent spasms of goofiness, he also shows some courage on the trail. He has been as unabashed as Lieberman in support of free trade; he favors lifting the trade embargo on Cuba. (Dean has skittered away from both positions.) His least satisfying position is on the issue he says is most important: the war. He says he has a "success strategy," but he doesn't sound much different from the other Democrats. He wants NATO in charge of the military operation and the United Nations in charge of civil affairs, though neither NATO nor the U.N. has shown...