Word: foreign
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While many companies have been trying to live up to higher standards, industrial leaders face competing demands on their attention and resources. Executives are already struggling to keep up with foreign rivals, manage their debt and navigate safe passage through a flagging economy. Even so, consumers and politicians are getting their message across with growing earnestness and skill. Declares Nader: "The '90s will make the '60s pale into insignificance in terms of the reform drive to clean up the fraud, waste, abuse and crimes of many corporations." Corporate responsibility will no longer be a fringe benefit but an integral part...
Veterans around the country, on the other hand, were outraged that they had risked their lives to protect a flag so that others might have the right to burn it. Said Don Bracken, the adjutant quartermaster of the Veterans of Foreign Wars chapter in Seattle: "The flag is a symbol of the U.S., and when you destroy that flag, you destroy the principles of our country." Conservative activists such as Patrick McGuigan of the Free Congress Foundation saw the ruling as yet another attack on traditional values. "The Supreme Court has told us schoolchildren may wear printed obscenities on their...
...West Germany, Chancellor Helmut Kohl's Christian Democrats received a blow as the new right-wing Republican Party, led by a former sergeant in Hitler's Waffen-SS, won 7% of the vote by capitalizing on fears of competition from foreign workers...
...Soviets had no immediate response. But U.S. critics promptly charged that the Bush Administration was avoiding tough questions, like whether to scrap the Star Wars antimissile system, and deliberately delaying a START agreement. The Administration, warned Senator Joseph Biden, a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, may have committed a "major blunder...
During the next few days, however, the Sandinistas gave less cordial signals. First, they confiscated the coffee farms of three opposition members. Then, in Caracas, Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann charged that unnamed U.S. officials were involved "down to the marrow of their bones" in drug trafficking...