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Those groups filing the suit have, for now, appropriated the agenda. NAFTA they claim, provides only a consultative framework and no instruments or mechanisms for meaningful or adequate enforcement. The fear that transborder pollution will be worsened by increased trade between the U.S. and Mexico is a pervasive...
...ministers to cut anti-import tariffs on hundreds of items (although not the most contentious ones), which could lead to a resumption of the stalled GATT world trade talks. By the end of the week, other substantive achievements were announced: a $3 billion aid plan for Russia and a "framework" agreement that will guide future negotiations to reduce Japan's trade surplus with...
...important though ambiguous U.S.-Japanese agreement emerged unexpectedly after the formal summit ended and Clinton was about to leave Tokyo. The Americans had sought a "framework" agreement to guide future negotiations aimed at reducing Japan's enormous surpluses in trade with the U.S. (nearly $50 billion a year currently). But negotiators argued through two nights, indulging in such hairsplitting quarrels over wording that at one point Clinton exclaimed, "You mean I flew all the way across the Pacific to negotiate this?" Miyazawa ordered his bargainers not to let Clinton go away empty-handed, and they complied -- though only after arguing...
...beyond draping his story across Manchester's framework, McGinniss poses as an all-knowing narrator who jumps in and out of people's heads -- usually, but not always, Teddy's -- according to his mood of the moment, and plausibility be damned. Here is the account of Teddy's thoughts as he meets young Caroline Kennedy in the White House on Friday afternoon: "She did not yet know that her Daddy was dead and that her mother, even then, was flying back to Washington wearing a dress still stained with his blood and with flecks of tissue from his brain...
Those who were big fans of the book and who are book-to-movie purists will have some problems with director Sydney Pollack's big-screen version. For the first two-thirds of the movie, the basic framework of the book's plot is retained, but the intervening details are changed. Readers who enjoyed the plumbing of Mitch's thoughts will be disappointed--we see only Cruise's actions. Some scenes are left in. Others are cut. Still others, such as a free-flowing montage of the offers Mitch receives from other law firms upon graduation, are nowhere...