Word: procession
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...block any progress. In the end, Washington was unable to win even the relatively nebulous commitment - agreed upon by its most important rival trading bloc, the European Union - to form a WTO working group on the issue of labor rights. Thus the pitfalls of an organization whose decision-making process demands absolute consensus...
...argues that young voters are politically disenfranchised from the process because moneyed interests have too much say. This disengagement from the political process fosters civic disengagement as well because, in McCain's view, younger voters don't feel the government is responsive to them...
...going to have young men and women involved again in the political process instead of become cynical and alienated, and I believe that I can motivate them to do so," he said early...
...understand the complexity of the debates in Seattle. There are a series of truly unsolved problems. Anti-WTO activists are wrong, as a point of fact, to see the WTO as a faceless bureaucracy setting the world's rules, but they are right that the negotiating process, by which the U.S. and other countries bargain over trade standards, is opaque and mostly hidden from view. Its not the WTO's bureaucracy per se that's the problem, it's the behavior of the member governments, including, or perhaps especially, our own. The first problem, therefore, is how to achieve greater...
...multi-level" that it can serve different people's needs, Lee says. "It's a very natural process. It develops your inner strength, balance, and most importantly, inner peace...