Word: powers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Some professors have acknowledged the lullaby power of their voices. Earlier this year, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy and Civic Policy Thomas Scanlon demanded that his students, "Open all the windows! It's 90 degrees in here. I want a challenge! It would be too easy to make you all fall asleep in a room this warm...
...Case Against the WTO Critics of the WTO range from the fringe to the mainstream, raising concerns about democracy, labor rights and the environment. They reject the idea of having a non-elected body with the power to overrule democratically elected governments on issues of environmental protection and labor rights. For example, environmentally motivated U.S. restrictions on importing shrimp caught with nets that endanger sea turtles have been overruled by the WTO, while laws against dumping low-cost steel in the U.S. may also be eliminated by the international body. Some of the more radical environmentalist groups, as well...
...Crimson will have to, if it hopes to do well in its next game against Patriot League power Navy on Saturday at Lavietes...
...Wednesday, after police Tuesday imposed a curfew to curb the protests that disrupted the opening of the WTO summit. An impossibly broad coalition of activists - ranging from anarchists to environmentalists and the pillars of U.S. organized labor - have condemned the WTO as a forum of corporate interests with growing power to overrule national governments on such issues as protecting the environment and labor rights. Free trade advocates defend the organization as the harbinger of unprecedented global prosperity...
...filmmakers can get away with this because of our enduring millennial uneasiness. We still can't be sure what will happen to our computer-assisted jets, nuclear power plants and electricity-supply lines at the moment '99 rolls over into '00. A flurry of bug- fixing and Y2K-readiness reports over the past year seems to have lulled most of us into a what-me-worry? coma, but it hasn't made the problem go away. There are untold millions of embedded chips and creaky old computer systems that will continue to keep track of the date in terms...