Word: powerfulness
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Northern Ireland's power-sharing cabinet offers hope for future
...first official meeting of Northern Ireland's new power-sharing cabinet last Thursday marked the successful completion of a series of political compromises. The seemingly endless peace process has finally resulted in a new joint government representing both the Protestant majority and Catholic minority of the region, both the unionists who wish to remain linked with Britain and those who had hoped to unite with the Republic of Ireland. This new power-sharing legislature may finally bring peace to an area that has seen 3,300 deaths in the last three decades of violence. We hope it lasts...
Coordinators at the Medical School have also been hard at work to ensure that there are no widespread interruptions of power or water that could paralyze long-term and irreplaceable research experiments...
...that Harvard is prepared to take on the millennium, Eagan and Bradner say that they feel secure in the knowledge that the University's computer-operated systems could withstand likely natural disasters--blizzard, storms, power outages, for example...
...answer is this: The kind of trade promoted by the World Trade Organization (WTO) locks these workers into sweatshops. Fifty thousand people protested the WTO meeting in Seattle because the WTO is an astonishing consolidation of corporate power. It has the power to override and do away with any labor, human rights and environmental standards with any democratic notions and with any transparency or responsibility that interferes with corporate profits. The rise of global sweatshops is just one effect of the rise of corporate power and of its globalizing reach. The WTO's kind of trade--trade that pretends...