Word: friday
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...representing developing countries had dug in their heels, convinced that the world's most powerful trading nation planned to deny many of them their only competitive advantage - cheap labor. They vowed to block any progress on further trade liberalization, and claimed victory when the conference ended in failure late Friday. "Protesters weren't the key element that destroyed the Seattle talks," says TIME correspondent Andrew Zagorin. "The meeting collapsed less because of what was happening outside in the streets than because of what transpired in the negotiating hall as delegates were overwhelmed by their inability to resolve contentious issues...
...Clinton administration's tough talk on labor rights won support from union leaders, and the summit's failure means there's no trade-talk framework agreement for the vice president to defend against Democratic party skeptics. U.S. trade representative Charlene Barshefsky, who chaired the Seattle talks, closed the conference Friday calling for a "time out" in the talks, and for the next year at least the principals may slow things down as U.S. elections loom...
...contrary to the previous two losses, Mazzoleni could confidently say that his team came out strongly on Friday. For the first time in a while, Harvard got an early jump on the competition, holding RPI at bay for over half of the game...
...Pathfinder mission into launching a much less adaptable probe that needed everything to go just right in order to succeed. But the agency isn't conceding anything yet. "When we started, we said we'd push the boundaries and we'd lose some," NASA administrator Dan Goldin said late Friday night, "but we haven't lost this...
Fortunately, for NASA, the second time's the charm - or so it seems. On Friday, the space agency's engineers celebrated the fact that, as far as they could tell, the second of their two $100 million Martian landers didn't get lost in space. All indications were that the Mars Polar Lander enjoyed a safe touchdown at right around its scheduled landing time, 3:01 p.m. EST. But NASA failed to receive a signal from the craft during the first 20-minute communications window, beginning around 3:40 p.m. The Lander is the partner craft to the Mars Climate...