Word: globe
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With all the hype over what may or may not happen as the date rolls over to 2000, possibly causing computers to think it is the year 1900, the "Y2K" bug has infected holiday plans--if not computer systems--around the globe and at Harvard...
...panel had been publicized in the Boston Globe and Harvard Gazette, and the divinity school fielded over 80 calls asking about it in the last few days, according to Nancy E. Nienhuis, the school's program coordinator...
More important, however, the protesters' demands represented an assumption that President Clinton seemed to share, an assumption responsible in large part for the failure of the conference: that U.S. labor and environmental standards are equally desired across the globe. The U.S. no longer possesses, if it ever did, the ability to impose unilaterally its standards on the rest of the world. For developing nations to choose to implement such standards, the measures must be seen more as a means to improve their own welfare than as an outgrowth of American self-interest...
...these conditions exist across the globe...
...Frequently, one of the things that is considered is, can we defend this if it's on the front page of The Crimson or the [Boston] Globe or The New York Times...