Word: membership
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...world markets. Whether it was bailing out Mexico's currency to protect U.S. institutional investors or organizing a preemptive line of credit to prevent Brazil's economy tanking under pressure from Asia, or pressing China to make a host of concessions to specific U.S. corporations in exchange for WTO membership or leaning on South Africa over importing AIDS drugs from foreign sources that sold them cheaper than U.S. pharmaceutical corporations, the Clinton administration has always been on point for American business. Candidate Clinton may have pilloried President Bush for being too soft on China, but President Clinton...
Earlier this year we supported a term bill increase contingent on a council size reduction. A council which is not competitively elected cannot be truly representative of the student body. The bloated membership means less accountability and diffusion of responsibility, recipes for disaster when dealing with budgets and events. This is why we feel that it is only through reducing the size of the council that the council can legitimate itself in the eyes of students...
Topics included a nationwide drop in union membership, the closing of local factories, increasing water pollution, and concern about rainforest destruction and international human rights abuses...
...fairly different and its membership is fairly large, so it didn't properly fit in under CEOC," Lim says...
...everyone in Trimble's party is comfortable with his leap. Concerned about letting Sinn Fein in without first seeing some automatic weapons made into plowshares, only 58 percent of the membership approved of the deal. One Ulster MOP called it "akin to turkeys voting for Christmas." Still, what's important isn't so much the weapons as it is the people using them, and this deal is an important and necessary leap of faith to put George Mitchell's historic peace deal back on track...