Word: preferments
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...team's early memos, a 10-page document dated March 2, the Americans summed up the situation: "Voters don't approve of the job Yeltsin is doing, don't think things will ever get any better and prefer the Communists' approach. There exists only one very simple strategy for winning: first, becoming the only alternative to the Communists; and second, making the people see that the Communists must be stopped at all costs...
...school so they could help in the developing agricultural economy. They were cheap farm laborers. To suggest that all child labor is bad is to embrace a type of political correctness that has not been thought through. Would the North American advocates who oppose all child labor prefer that the children in developing countries be hungry or that they be employed? The working conditions should be addressed, not the fact that children work. For many of these youngsters and their families, a child's job may be the most significant asset they have. Why take it away? KEVIN AVRAM Regina...
...eternal lesson of Washington, where handling the big levers of power is no guarantee you won't slip through the trapdoor that opens anytime enough people pull those little levers in the voting booth. (Ask Tom Foley about that.) This is why so many people in that city prefer to seek influence, whether by virtue of the strength of their ideas or their access. The powerful are apt to look a bit careworn, while the winners of the influence game tend to be less accountable in public and for the most part more durable. Together they make up the permanent...
...return, negotiators have a long way to go to find any common ground. "They will be locked in their battle over every point," says Barnes. British Prime Minister John Major, Irish Prime Minister John Bruton and delegates from seven parties remain at the talks. While the majority Protestants prefer strong ties with Britain, the Catholics seek the independence the rest of Ireland secured in 1921. Chris McKenna
...return, negotiators have a long way to go to find any common ground. "They will be locked in their battle over every point," says Barnes. British Prime Minister John Major, Irish Prime Minister John Bruton and delegates from seven parties remain at the talks. While the majority Protestants prefer strong ties with Britain, the Catholics seek the independence the rest of Ireland secured in 1921. Chris McKenna