Word: nafta
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...labor, anti-NAFTA Democrats that refuse to crack, a defiant group that could sink the measure ? and that, come 2000, could make the Republican Party look positively united by comparison...
...really want to convert their party, they need to remember the Clinton Rule: nothing convinces like success. Bill Clinton was able to get a predominantly-liberal Democratic Party behind him despite their distaste for many of his stances (welfare reform, NAFTA, the death penalty) by finally gaining his party entry to the White House after years of electoral embarrassments...
Knight did develop a taste for foreign policy while on Molten's payroll. With the signing of NAFTA and its environmental sidebars in 1993, the firm saw a big market in Mexico for its toxic waste-eating machine. It also saw a big marketing opportunity in the Vice President's visit to Mexico in December of that year. Two days before the trip, Knight wrote Gore's counsel Jack Quinn suggesting that Gore put in a good word for the company with President Carlos Salinas regarding a cleanup job that was the "type of project where U.S. technology can promote...
...NAFTA treaty is not going to fix Mexico's economic problems. Free trade is behind the worst aspects of Mexico's current crisis. I hope for the sake of all the regular folks in Mexico, Canada and the U.S. that the Cardenas victory will at least begin a period of questioning the idolatry of the international free market. EMILE M. SCHEPERS Chicago...
...Tony Blair with a Spanish accent, he ran a slick multimedia campaign that moved his party toward the center and reassured Mexico City's middle class that he would do nothing to interfere with its newfound prosperity. Asked after the election whether he still advocated renegotiation of the NAFTA treaty and renationalization of privatized firms, Cardenas answered that "investors shouldn't worry too much about me, because the mayor has little to do with national economic policy...