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...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...
...will confer with Congressional Democrats, many of whom are staunch in their opposition to across-the-board cuts. As of Thursday morning, the House looked primed to approve the cuts and send them over to the Senate, where the threats of several filibusters - over milk prices and environmental measures - loom large...
...education has prepared me better than most to "make a living." But once I have that living, I haven't the faintest idea what to do with it. Besides, why should financial security loom so large in the first place? What if the pursuit of that security conflicts with the pursuit of some other ideal, like romance? Many of us will derive our deepest fulfillment from our future families. How do we choose between a relationship and a job, between a guaranteed salary and the risks of potentially fickle passion...
These days, however, Farley's political focus is squarely on Congress, where Fruit's adventures in lobbying offer a choice example of how the game is played. Fruit of the Loom is a tattered company, suffering from bad performance and poor management and lobbying heavily for a bill that would ripen its bottom line...
Fruit of the Loom's favorite trade bill has led to a rare split between Kentucky's two conservative Republican Senators. While McConnell is expected to support the tariff cut, his colleague Jim Bunning has no intention of backing the measure. Asks Bunning: "How many more jobs do we have to lose until we wake up and smell the Caribbean coffee...