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...North American Free Trade Agreement. Negotiators for the U.S., Canada and Mexico, at work virtually nonstop for the past 14 months, are in the final stages of preparing several hundred pages of regulation upon regulation, written in droning legalese. Yet once approved by the three governments, the trade pact will mark a dramatic turn in the history of the continent: at a stroke it will formalize a grand economic alliance, cement Mexico into a unity it has always occupied geographically, if not psychologically and culturally, and reshape the way North American business is done...
...Helen (Goldie Hawn), a writer, are obsessed with their bodies. They will go to a quack doctor or a fat farm to get flat and firm. To find a potion that will keep them forever young -- a kind of Preparation Age -- Mad and Hell will even make a mud-pact with Satan. And you can bet the devil is a woman (Isabella Rossellini). Only the sodden man in their lives (Bruce Willis), a plastic surgeon turned makeup artist for the newly dead, has any understanding of the toxic wastes that lace the Fountain of Youth...
...union's contract expired June 30, and wages have been a sticking point in the talks about a new pact...
...Mexican stock market, which rebounded, no longer fearing his opposition to a U.S.-Mexico free-trade pact...
...polls to decide whether or not to back the Maastricht treaty and its call for deeper economic and political integration into the E.C. The Irish vote acquired special importance after Denmark rejected the treaty's ratification in its own referendum three weeks ago. Had Ireland also opposed the Maastricht pact, it almost surely would have been dead, and the Community's greater integration, including the creation of a single European currency and common foreign and defense policies, would have suffered a setback that would have taken years to rebuild...