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Word: frees (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...organization's four aims are: To ensure that all members enjoy the same trading rights as other members To support free trade and the reduction and elimination of tariff barriers To establish binding rules to ensure fairness and consistency in trade To eliminate subsidies in order to make trade more competitive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A WTO Primer | 12/1/1999 | See Source »

...Case for the WTO Advocates of the WTO and free trade - which include all of the serious contenders for both Democratic and Republican presidential nominations - emphasize that globalization and the expansion of trade have created unprecedented wealth in both rich and some previously poor countries. The world's economy has grown to six times its size since 1950, primarily on the basis of a tenfold increase in international trade. Free trade advocates believe global prosperity can be maintained and expanded only through an increasingly borderless economy, which requires standardized rules made by a universally accepted authority. That, they argue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A WTO Primer | 12/1/1999 | See Source »

...Eviction Free Zone (EFZ) has spent the last 10 years advocating for tenant rights and representing the interests of working people...

Author: By Robert K. Silverman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Motley Crew: Grassroots Group Fights for Tenants | 12/1/1999 | See Source »

Marist (2-2) led for the entire game, and although the Crimson closed to 79-75 with 38 seconds left, Marist made 6-of-6 free throws after that to close...

Author: By Rahul Rohatgi, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Marist Outfoxes M. Basketball, 87-82 | 12/1/1999 | See Source »

...summit. An impossibly broad coalition of activists - ranging from anarchists to environmentalists and the pillars of U.S. organized labor - have condemned the WTO as a forum of corporate interests with growing power to overrule national governments on such issues as protecting the environment and labor rights. Free trade advocates defend the organization as the harbinger of unprecedented global prosperity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Protests Could Drown Out Real Anti-WTO Message | 11/30/1999 | See Source »

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