Word: emboldens
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...clear was the extent to which President Clinton's own hands are tied domestically. Following on the heels of the nuclear test ban treaty debacle, the WTO failure may usher in an open season on the lame duck President's foreign policy. Clinton's defeat in Seattle will certainly embolden those congressional forces that had vowed to turn down the President's deal with China over WTO membership, putting at least a question mark over its passage in an election year. But what's bad for Bill Clinton may not be altogether bad for Al Gore, and the Seattle debacle...
...this bull market. And we lend too much of a veneer of professionalism to those who would gamble away life savings on random, short-term moves. Let's stop confusing these two contingents before we scare those who have the confidence and skills to be their own adviser and embolden those who should know better than to bet instead of invest...
...making Milosevic more compliant." It had been left to Russia to coax symmetrical concessions out of NATO and Belgrade to kick-start the peace process. While the Chinese embassy bombing may make the West a little more inclined toward peacemaking gestures, the storm of criticism facing NATO may also embolden Milosevic's defiance...
Washington was also stuck in internal wrangling. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright wanted the White House to push harder for NATO military action, but Defense Secretary William Cohen balked, fearing air strikes would only embolden the Kosovo Liberation Army, then at the peak of its strength and demanding an independent state, which Washington opposed. Clinton was too distracted to knock bureaucratic heads or force the allies to carry out their threat. The indecision "proved to be a disaster," says a U.S. diplomat. "Milosevic took the measure of the West and decided he could take advantage...
...over Easter that they launched the first-ever strike against the company in the U.S. "Trade unions have never gone after McDonald's because its workforce is so transitory -- it's mostly composed of kids," says TIME correspondent Edward Barnes. But while the nation's sunny economic prospects may embolden service sector labor, the major threat facing McDonald's in the three-day-old strike isn't the emergence of a McUnion; it's bad publicity. Which may be why, despite the microscopic scale of the action, the head office has pledged to resolve the "valid issues" raised...