Word: shrimps
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...best thing about flying corporate isn't the comfy seats or the jumbo shrimp, or even the ego massage. The best thing about a corporate jet is that it's not a commercial-airline jet. The best thing is avoiding long airport-security lines and having to simultaneously untie your shoes, take off your coat, get a laptop out of a carefully packed bag and walk at the same time; it's avoiding the crummy, overpriced airport food, the packed planes, the overstuffed overhead bins and the frazzled, overworked crews. And being No. 175 for takeoff. When you fly corporate...
...points to two international precedents that demonstrate the permissibility of such restrictions: a WTO ruling concerning American shrimp imports, and the Montreal Protocol, which established trade controls affecting ozone levels...
...case brought to the WTO, the U.S. imposed penalties on imports from Asian fishermen who, it was believed, allowed their nets to ensnare shrimp and endangered sea-turtles indiscriminately. Though it overturned the penalties on more technical aspects, the WTO maintained that trade controls could be established based on the methods of production as well as the nature of the product itself...
...other cases, overly specific language leads to unrealistic standards, as in the shrimp import dispute where the law required the use of a particular rescue device for the trapped turtles...
...Environmental degradation is beginning to threaten some of the economic gains Vietnam has made. Once lucrative shrimp farms are dying, and the country's efforts to market itself as a tourist destination are undermined by images of poisoned rivers. And while it is doubtful that the Thi Vai river's chemical stew could actually eat through a steel hull, the threat that ships would not stop at the Go Dau port, delivered a clear message about the potential economic impact of pollution...