Word: presidental
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Of all the 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...
Despite the best "what-the-President-meant" spin efforts of his trade negotiating team, the specter of labor conditions being used as a reason to block imports to the U.S. from developing countries prompted their leaders to block any progress. In the end, Washington was unable to win even the...
It's not as if consensus was imminent before the developing countries recoiled from Clinton's comment. Deep divisions between Europe and the U.S. over issues such as agriculture subsidies gave the developing countries plenty of room to maneuver. In the end, the industrialized nations found shackled by domestic political...
What the demonstrations did make clear was the extent to which President Clinton's own hands are tied domestically. Following on the heels of the nuclear test ban treaty debacle, the WTO failure may usher in an open season on the lame duck President's foreign policy. Clinton's defeat...
Ten years later, America's effort to become the world's best-educated nation is receiving failing marks. A federal panel reported Thursday that each of the six national education goals President Bush set in 1990 for the year 2000 will go unmet. Still, there was some noticeable improvement from...