Word: extended
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...from Russia, Haiti, Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Israel, Indonnesia, or Vietnam? Even worse, I'm from China, a country U.S. politicians can never live with and big business can never live without. When President Clinton made the painful and controversial decision to extend China's Most Favored Nation (MFN) trading status last May, Congress failed to use human rights--its traditionally lethal weapon--to exert sufficient pressure on the president. Let's not waste time trying to make sense of the subtle relationship between MFN and human rights, but rather focus on the second issue...
Moreover, the damage of such an affair can extend far beyond the people directly involved. Undoing it is "like unscrambling eggs," says Susan Mask, assistant to the president of the University of Iowa. "It creates serious problems for the faculty. It can fracture a department. The damage has to be weighed against...
...Saddle up. It's going to be a long protracted negotiation process. HUCTW and Harvard have a difficult enough time getting together on salary increases. The benefits battle promises to extend the bargaining well into 1996. That almost certainly means that Jesse Jackson (an old HUCTW buddy) will appear on campus to preach to a Yard full of cheering secretaries, and it virtually guarantees that you will see pickets in front of Mass. Hall before Christmas...
...Russia reverts to its traditional expansionist policies, in the absence of NATO, a nationalist state will be tempted to extend its control into the power vacuum to the west. But if the U.S. extends its security guarantees to the Czechs, Slovaks, Poles and Hungarians, Russia will find Eastern Europe more than it can swallow...
Before the Harvard band could even cool down from the celebration, the Crimson would strike again. Only 31 seconds later, Brad Konik poked home a loose puck in front of the St. Lawrence net to extend the Harvard lead...