Word: reach
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...based WTO is both traffic cop and top court of the global economy. And as shown by China's bid for admission last week, the organization seems about to extend its gospel of no-pain, no-gain capitalism across the planet. The WTO's 36,000 pages of regulations reach into far-flung crannies of human existence. Can Malaysian fishermen export their shrimp to the U.S. even if their nets lack escape hatches for endangered turtles? Yes. Can Massachusetts refuse to buy products from companies that do business in Myanmar? No. Do American corporations get an illegal export subsidy...
...should collect some too--say, a $1.50 bite out of each cash withdrawal at a bank where you're not a customer. And that's just the first bite, because often when you make such a withdrawal, two banks can get into your wallet. The combined ATM fees can reach $3.50 or more. Such sums have now sparked a nationwide legislative brawl over profitable ATM surcharges...
...grateful my children are beyond the reach of policies that replace the joy of learning with the fear of failing. As a teacher, I shudder at what the educrats have wrought for America's youth. BETTY RASKOFF KAZMIN Willard, Ohio...
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When the European Union proposed a plan to isolate and weaken Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic by delivering heating oil directly to towns run by his opponents, U.S. diplomats were skeptical. They said the oil - which Serbia badly needs this winter because of the Western embargo - would either fail to reach its recipients or end up in Milosevic's hands...