Word: minore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When confronted by intransigent nations, the U.S. government has made accommodation the name of the game. Under a president who accused his predecessor of coddling the Chinese, it has renewed China's most-favored-nation trading status and raised only a minor ruckus over alleged arms shipments to Pakistan. More recently, the U.S. has responded to North Korea's alarming refusal to comply with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty by dangling various rewards--from an end to U.S.-South Korean military exercises to steps toward diplomatic recognition--in exchange for cooperation...
...their haughty response to American human-rights posturing. They know that if Congress tries to rescind China's MFN status, it will be besieged by frantic business lobbies which are currently salivating at the prospect of cheap labor and a market over a billion strong. Even the relatively minor sanctions imposed by the U.S. over the supposed Pakistan arms shipments hurt American companies more than it hurts the Chinese government...
...another reason for their silence, someofficers and sources privately suggest, may bethat the seemingly minor case has pitted colleagueagainst colleague in a department already reelingfrom internal divisions...
...joke, a completely penetrable ruse. Curiously enough, what's really unpersuasive about Mrs. Doubtfire -- not to say draggy -- is its nondrag sequences. The children are goody-goodies, without mischief or quirks, and their father's relationship with them is unclouded by even minor impatience, let alone major outrage. The script, by Randi Mayem Singer and Leslie Dixon, presents ideal fatherhood as a form of saintliness...
...Zealand Prime Minister Jim Bolger eked out a one-vote parliamentary majority from absentee ballots cast in elections earlier this month. Bolger insisted that his conservative National Party could govern with 50 out of 99 parliamentary seats, vs. 45 for Labour and four for minor parties. But a National M.P. is expected to be named as Speaker, who cannot routinely support the government. Bolger thus faces the possibility of a hung parliament on key ballots...