Word: globalize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...addition to full disclosure of factory locations and names, the provisions adopted by UW provide for a university commitment to participate in a global living wage study, a country specific living wage to be paid to all clothing workers and special protection for women in factories...
...those are America's 21st century foes, Gore has been training for decades to take them on. He was worrying about global warming back in college, when it was still more a theory than a real threat. His interest in stabilizing post-apartheid South Africa has drawn him to the problems of goat farmers and ways of bringing clean water and solar power to remote villages. In 1994 he ordered the CIA to find out why countries fall apart. After feeding 2 million facts and figures from about 113 instances of national collapse into its computers, the intelligence agency came...
...served in Vietnam. Gore set his fix on world affairs early in his political career, though it was not an obvious area for a junior Congressman elected from the plateau of Middle Tennessee. Even on the environment, Gore's signature issue, the questions that stirred his passions most were global warming and ozone depletion...
...been to Japan, like Diana Ross has been to Japan." Impact is everything. It's at moments like these that one sees another side of Brandy, a shrewdly ambitious side. She may lack the blunt careerist lust of, say, Celine Dion, but her gaze is just as focused on global stardom. TV movies are just an initial step. Watch out, Tokyo...
...Secretary Bentsen set the Treasury on the right course, emphasizing deficit reduction, cooperation, for growth around the world," he said. He continued, "Secretary Rubin has seen the Treasury and the global economy as a whole through enormously challenging times with a steady hand...