Word: grouping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reason to block imports to the U.S. from developing countries prompted their leaders to block any progress. In the end, Washington was unable to win even the relatively nebulous commitment - agreed upon by its most important rival trading bloc, the European Union - to form a WTO working group on the issue of labor rights. Thus the pitfalls of an organization whose decision-making process demands absolute consensus...
...Thomas Spencer, Timothy Jackson, Joseph McGuirk, James Lyons and Paul Brotherton. The Worcester Fire may be have been started by an arsonist, though it's still to early to tell. The firefighters entered an old factory--a maze of stairs and doors and walls--to try to find a group of homeless people allegedly living there...
Surely, they are all personable enough, and among their core group of supporters, undoubtedly they all command a great deal of loyalty. Fentrice Driskell '01 did make an impressive vice-presidential candidate last year, and Sterling P.A. Darling '01 is certainly notable for his unique sartorial style and shellacked hair. But neither Driskell nor Darling, nor anyone else seeking the high office of Holworthy basement can really claim to be a campus leader in any genuine sense...
...attack came as Safra was moving to complete the sale of Republic National to the London-based HSBC banking group for $10.3 billion. He'd been forced to reduce his price by $450 million after Japanese financial regulators claimed that one of Safra's clients, Princeton Analytics, may have cheated Japanese investors out of $1 billion. The bank had also lost $191 million from Russia's 1998 debt default, and last summer alerted the FBI to the possibility that some of its accounts were being used for money laundering by Russian organized crime. Indeed, concerns over money laundering prompted Republic...
Thursday, while the GOP presidential candidates gathered in New Hampshire to engage in debate and argue about the size of tax breaks, a less kind, considerably less gentle Democratic race was beginning to show its face. Campaigning in Iowa, Al Gore addressed a group of senior citizens, and warned them that Bill Bradley's sweeping health care reforms would "deny care to millions." Bradley, in an uncharacteristic flash of emotion, refuted Gore's claim, calling it a "distortion" of the truth. Bradley went even further in his attack, saying Gore is lying about Bradley's record and misrepresenting his policy...