Word: openers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Still, council members managed, amid the songs and jokes, to pass two measures to improve the quality and amount of public open space in Cambridge--and to approve $5,000 to buy 1,000 Thanksgiving turkeys for the poor...
Tempering their commercialism, two of the sites offer practical financial advice and services. At iCanBuy and DoughNET, young people can open FDIC-insured bank accounts, learn about investing and donate to a charity. Shopping is still the main draw for youngsters, commonly more concerned with stuff than savings, but the sites' grownup money advice may be winning a few converts...
...Truck driver Xavier Ocampo was charged with a misdemeanor after cracking open a roasted peanut at a Lincoln, Neb., grocery store. The nut was worth about a penny...
After years of false starts, Bill Clinton and Jiang Zemin have clasped hands and jumped. Beijing and Washington announced an historic trade agreement Monday, in which China agreed to open up its economy in exchange for membership in the World Trade Organization. For Clinton, the deal means going head-to-head with a hostile Congress, whose enmity toward Beijing over alleged nuclear spying will amplify protectionist sentiments in the legislature. Congressional approval is required because implementing the deal depends on the House of Representatives' dropping legislation requiring annual approval of China's Most Favored Nation trade status. But with...
Clinton's challenge looks easy, though, compared with the one faced by his Chinese counterparts. "WTO membership will open China up to competition, which will mean a number of industries that survive only through state subsidies and heavy tariffs are bound to collapse," says TIME Beijing bureau chief Jaime Florcruz. "And that will increase structural unemployment." The more hard-line elements in China's leadership have slowed economic reforms precisely out of fear that the inevitable unemployment will spark social chaos. So by signing on to the WTO deal, Jiang has come down firmly on the side of the reformists...