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...deny a General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade without amendments and within a specified time. The process is considered crucial to preventing complex trade treaties from being picked apart by special interests: NAFTA, for instance, had been negotiated under the auspices of this process. What caused the Clinton flip-flop? Criticisms from groups representing consumers, as well as complaints from conservatives...
...third wife, and that's the decade he became friends with Jack Nicholson and hung out with Henry Kissinger. But the '80s weren't nearly as much fun. Evans was busted for possession of cocaine, and a vicious murder was tied to the production of his ambitious box-office flop The Cotton Club. After contemplating suicide and escaping from a mental hospital, and while producing last year's insipid sex thriller Sliver, Evans did what any well-traveled mogul looking for a comeback would do: he wrote his memoirs...
...look like men of action -- when all they're doing is waiting to see if the U.S. will invade. "If this were a card game," he says, "there's only one card left, and that's the ace": invasion. Meanwhile, Barnes reports, the U.S.-led embargo is proving a flop. Lieut. General Raoul Cedras is rumored to be making $50,000 a day off the black market, and Haiti's civilian elite have every luxury "but Kellogg's corn flakes . . . By the time the embargo reaches the well-to-do, there probably won't be a country left to save...
WASHINGTON -- The Administration has a problem. PRESIDENT CLINTON said he would veto any health-care bill without universal coverage. Now that he may have to flip-flop on the issue, he doesn't want to look as if he's flip- flopping. White House advisers say a buzz word has been coined to make delay seem O.K. Says an insider: "If we can construct a 'pathway' to get there by 2002, he'll accept...
...True Lies cost more than $100 million, so what? Hollywood frets when a huge-budget film is a flop (like Schwarzenegger's Last Action Hero) and purrs when one is a hit (like T2). As Schwarzenegger notes, "The press thinks movie studios should be reviewed like the government -- as if public money were spent and a crime committed. Well, it's not their money, it's the studios' money. Sometimes money is spent wisely, sometimes not. But it's like that in every business...