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While sweeping, the treaty will not cover everything: Mexico, in line with its constitution, has flatly ruled out foreign ownership in its energy industry, while Canada seeks to extend the blanket protection it won in its earlier agreement with the U.S. for "cultural industries" such as television and publishing. But in a major concession, Mexico has agreed to allow American companies to establish stakes in its banks and, under NAFTA will include insurance and securities firms, institutions previously barred to foreign ownership...
...Israel's Scitex Corp., Kevin and his crew will be able to produce the final, high-quality photographs on site. The images will have the same sharp quality as those scanned on our premises and will be ready for use in the magazine. Notes McVea: "These innovations actually extend our deadlines. Four years ago, it took up to five hours to process and send a single image from the Seoul Olympics. With this technology, all that work takes just 35 minutes...
Violence is on TV and in the movies; does it really have to be in the mouths of babes" Kids compete in academic, athletic and social environments; does competition need to extend to the candy counter? Does an overly-sensitive tongue really make you a nerd...
There are rich possibilities for more bloodshed in other parts of the country still called Yugoslavia, which now consists only of Serbia and Montenegro. Triumphant Serbs might try to extend their conquests in Kosovo, a province populated overwhelmingly by Albanians; in Macedonia, like Bosnia a former Yugoslav republic that has declared independence; and in Vojvodina, another Serbian province with a large and restless Hungarian minority. Finally, says one diplomat, "there is the Serb-Serb civil war" for control of what would then be a Greater Serbia...
...much compensation is contained in [thecity's] benefits package," says Hyde. "There's noreason not to extend those benefits to allemployees who have family obligations...