Word: papered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...media interviews President Clinton lives to regret once his term is over, few will rank as high as last week's conversation on trade with the Seattle Post Examiner. In a hotel-room conversation with the paper's Michael Paulson while anti-WTO demonstrations raged outside, Clinton casually suggested that the U.S. should ultimately impose sanctions on nations that violate a set of core labor standards...
...comment may have been the obvious palliative to throw out to the legions of labor activists - core Democratic party voters - in Seattle to protest, but it got U.S. trade negotiators in a panic. And with good reason. Within hours of the paper hitting the streets, delegations representing developing countries had dug in their heels, convinced that the world's most powerful trading nation planned to deny many of them their only competitive advantage - cheap labor. They vowed to block any progress on further trade liberalization, and claimed victory when the conference ended in failure late Friday. "Protesters weren...
...Wang leads me through the cubicles into a conference room. It's called "the team room"--the hub of any consulting project. It is sparsely furnished with chairs and folding tables, an easel with newsprint and a wipeboard on one wall. The tables are covered with piles of paper, technical manuals (including Presentations for Dummies) and cables from the team's numerous laptops and cellular phones. The whole set-up is remarkably impermanent--the team could pack up and leave in about 20 minutes without leaving a trace...
...Except when we run out of toilet paper. Then it becomes an adventure...
...guards I'd say. Either they were old, or they took some money and got away. It was a lot of money, maybe $13,000, but that's not a year's worth of work. In the long run, the agreement wasn't worth the paper it was printed on." Harvard replaced the vacated positions with subcontracted workers from Security Systems Incorporated (SSI). Instead of the traditional black Harvard uniform, they wear bright white shirts with an SSI badge. "They gave us a contract with no raise for four years, across the board. That hurts," Billy says. "And we didn...