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...General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade by Dec. 15. "A good GATT agreement could create 1.4 million American jobs and boost the average American family income by $1,700 a year," Clinton said in Seattle on Friday. "This, my fellow Americans, is the answer to 20 years of stagnant wages for the hardworking middle class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Secrets Of Success | 11/29/1993 | See Source »

...proof, say the company's engineers), and lined with clay and long-lasting plastic. At the end of the mine's 15-to-20-year life, the water level would be lowered and the crushed sulfate tailings would be capped with rock and dirt. The remaining water would be stagnant, not flowing. Thus the supply of oxygen would be cut off, and formation of acid would stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mother Lode Vs. Mother Nature | 11/22/1993 | See Source »

Facing a dry advertising market and a stagnant listnership, officials of Harvard's radio station realized last spring they couldn't afford to replace their antiquated broadcasting equipment. Then WHRB's trustees informed them that they had better get the station back to financial health--fast...

Author: By Nan Zheng, | Title: WHRB Changes Program; Some Staffers Angered | 10/12/1993 | See Source »

...months before finally having the decency to pack up and hit the road. That's not good news for residents of the Mississippi River Valley, who long after floodwaters have crested will play host to a chocolate-colored inland sea sprawling across the spine of the Midwest -- a stagnant, festering stew of industrial waste, agricultural pesticides and raw sewage that laminates buildings in goo and provides a superb growing environment for bacteria. The entire floodplain, says Anita Walker in Des Moines, Iowa, will be a "muddy, stinky, awful mess to clean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After the Deluge: Health Hazards | 7/26/1993 | See Source »

...expand trade and to extend more generous aid to Russia, he told his subordinates, took precedence over everything else. He harped on the subject of employment, going so far as to call for a "jobs summit" at the meeting. Expanding trade, he insisted, was one way out of the stagnant employment that bedevils all members of the G-7 (for Group of Seven nations -- Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Traveling Salesman | 7/19/1993 | See Source »

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