Word: lowing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...idea of having a non-elected body with the power to overrule democratically elected governments on issues of environmental protection and labor rights. For example, environmentally motivated U.S. restrictions on importing shrimp caught with nets that endanger sea turtles have been overruled by the WTO, while laws against dumping low-cost steel in the U.S. may also be eliminated by the international body. Some of the more radical environmentalist groups, as well as conservatives such as Pat Buchanan, who traditionally oppose international organizations' having any jurisdiction over the U.S., want the organization disbanded. Others want to transform it to incorporate...
...Clinton administration, is pushing for the WTO to enforce minimum labor standards in developing countries, protesting that manufacturers are exploiting sweatshop conditions. But the governments of many developing countries see this as an attempt by Washington to protect American jobs at the expense of the Third World poor. With low labor costs often the only competitive advantage many developing countries have in the global economy, they fear that enforcing labor standards will simply expand unemployment in the developing world...
...problem with [crime] being at an all-time low is that a small increase really gets people worried," Pasquarello says...
Samuels kept his body between Clemente and guards Drew Gellert and Elliott Prasse-Freeman, preventing kickout passes and perimeter looks. Four of Clemente's six came on entry passes into the low post, and the other two came at the free-throw line...
...students who will be clawing for their passing grade were first exposed to this type of test in eighth grade, and their low scores did not come as a great shock. The standardized frameworks for English and math, on which the test is based, were completed only a couple of years ago. Since they were distributed, teachers have been expected to adapt to these frameworks, and students have tried valiantly to mold their answers to the format that the MCAS encourages. However, the timetable has been too short, and it is the students who are being shortchanged...