Word: ende
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Despite the best "what-the-President-meant" spin efforts of his trade negotiating team, the specter of labor conditions being used as a reason to block imports to the U.S. from developing countries prompted their leaders to block any progress. In the end, Washington was unable to win even the relatively nebulous commitment - agreed upon by its most important rival trading bloc, the European Union - to form a WTO working group on the issue of labor rights. Thus the pitfalls of an organization whose decision-making process demands absolute consensus...
...consensus was imminent before the developing countries recoiled from Clinton's comment. Deep divisions between Europe and the U.S. over issues such as agriculture subsidies gave the developing countries plenty of room to maneuver. In the end, the industrialized nations found shackled by domestic political concerns. European governments were bound by their electorates' concerns over everything from protecting the livelihood of farmers to genetically modified food as reason to fight tooth and nail against any moves to open up their produce markets. President Clinton tried at the last minute to get the G7 heads of state to come to Seattle...
Clearly, however, this kind of career liberalism also has some serious problems. Too often we end up shutting ourselves off from the opposition and curling up in our comfortable liberal bubble. The ideologically incestuous environment to which this gives rise breeds some of the most significant weaknesses in campus liberalism, and perhaps in liberalism all over. It allows us to stop thinking about the basic principles on which we base our politics, and once we stop questioning these basic principles, we become less responsible in their application...
...raising it above the frequent epithets of "knee-jerk" and "bleeding-heart," then liberals need to be wary of the assumptions we share with each other. This is, after all, a good rule for conservatives and liberals alike--although these assumptions function differently in the two communities. In the end, I suppose, it just comes back to the importance of keeping an open mind, a subject about which liberals generally have quite a lot to say. We would do well to follow our own advice...
...bank had also lost $191 million from Russia's 1998 debt default, and last summer alerted the FBI to the possibility that some of its accounts were being used for money laundering by Russian organized crime. Indeed, concerns over money laundering prompted Republic National only last month to end some 40 percent of its dealings with Russian banks. All of that will inevitably provide fertile ground for speculation as to the killers' motive, but until they're caught - if they're caught - speculation is all that...