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Perhaps the biggest problem with Buchanan's trade platform is the premise that trade is a big part of the problem. Most economists concur that trade with low-wage nations depresses low-skill American wages, but most don't think the effect is very large. Stanford economist Paul Krugman points out that in 1990 nonoil imports from low-wage nations amounted to 2.8% of America's GDP--a low number and, more to the point, barely higher than the 2.2% figure for 1960, back before low-skill American wages started dropping...
...just all had a really tough weekend," junior Megan Murray said. "On Saturday nobody in the entire field really played up to their potential except for maybe a couple of players. The scores really didn't reflect our team's level of skill or our motivation...
...goes well we will win the Ivies," Miller says. "We have the skill and the desire to do so. We have a big game against UConn coming up and if we play well it should help us get into the NCAA's. If we do go to the playoffs I am sure we will do really well...
...market for software that enables networkers to "browse" the World Wide Web--the fast-growing multimedia portion of the Internet. Having promised it would make the Net safe for business--including home banking and online creditcard shopping--Netscape has become a fat target for anybody with the time or skill to prove that it hasn't achieved that goal. Just last month the company had to rush out a new version of the Netscape browser after two groups of hackers cracked its security code...
...mythology, both ancient (Helen of Troy, Troilus and Cressida) and contemporary (Ava Gardner), often weighing in with satirical observations about sexual politics. In "Miss July Grows Older," another version of the modern myth, an aging pin-up girl comes to represent sexual charlatanry of all kinds ("Men were a skill," "Don't get me wrong: with the lights out/I'd still take on anyone"). The narrative voice is reminiscent of the prickly teenage heroine...