Word: freer
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NAFTA is important, however, primarily for reasons going beyond its own economic effects. Its rejection by the U.S. could topple a much bigger domino: a proposed agreement to promote freer trade among the more than 100 members of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade could die. That would abort an expansion of world trade that many nations are counting on to help end the recession afflicting the industrial world. The U.S. would be especially hurt: the GATT agreement contains protections for "intellectual property" (patents, copyrights) that American exporters sorely need but do not now have...
What you learned during that meal was very interesting, but not surprising: everyone at the table was the oldest kid, the achiever. You also learned that everyone's younger sibling is having much more fun. The younger siblings are happier, freer, cooler, more frequently drunk, than we ever were in high school...
Trade is becoming freer -- surely Congress will eventually pass NAFTA, as Presidents Clinton, Bush, Reagan, Carter, Ford and Nixon have all, in a remarkable display of bipartisan good sense, been urging...
Saturday evening: The vomit comes faster, freer. Among those who attempt a pilgrimage to Boston, the number of stories about such-and-such blowing chunks on the subway is mindboggling. The rowdy party-goers who stick closer to Harvard, on the other hand, have one destination: any party that will let them...
FOREIGN AID Thriving markets, Clinton says, are impossible without free trade. Totally free markets are a myth, but the Administration's recent decision to adopt "tied-aid" practices is inconsistent with Clinton's support for NAFTA and for a new, freer global-trade regime. Tied aid forces recipients of U.S. financial help to spend some of the dollars they receive on American goods and services. The U.S. has long criticized Japan, France, Germany and other countries for attaching strings to roughly $6 billion in their foreign assistance in exactly the manner Clinton has now proposed. "There is way too much...