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When Congress considers NAFTA this week, we hope that it is able to look beyond Perot's scare tactics and the narrow interests of pressure groups to see the good of the nation as a whole. NAFTA is a large step forward, rejecting it would be an even greater step backward...
...there is a vague feeling that the U.S. has often let itself be played for a sucker in trade deals. Perot has harped on that, charging that "dumb" negotiations in the 1980s cost millions of U.S. jobs. The Administration did not help itself by choosing initially to fight on narrow economic grounds (read: jobs) rather than invoke the foreign-policy considerations that actually are more important. It also has been somewhat hampered in making what could be one of its strongest arguments: to the extent that NAFTA promotes prosperity, job growth and wage increases in Mexico, it should keep...
...heard something about the group [being formed], but we never knew the composition of it," William's said yesterday. "Our problem with the task force is that it's very, very narrow...
...year study found that 90% of foot-surgery patients are women and that most of their problems stem from wearing shoes that are, on average, two sizes too narrow. Researchers estimate that roomier shoes could cut $2 billion from the U.S. health-care bill...
Arguments like those described above could give natural law a bad name. That would be unfortunate. To reject unreasonably narrow and arbitrary strictures on sexuality should not lead us to embrace a completely "non-judgmental" attitude with respect to sexuality. Reasonable elements within the natural law tradition constitute good grounds for public measures to elevate and improve our sexual lives--both for our own good and the good of society...