Word: standings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Latin America, is in recession or teetering on its brink," says Baumohl. The effect is to lessen worldwide demand for a whole host of goods, which accelerates the need to find new markets and increase exports to new partners. This tension is exacerbating frictions between trading partners where barriers stand in the way. "Many in the U.S. suspect that on the beef issue, for example, the Europeans are merely trying to protect their own farmers against cheaper and better U.S. beef," says Baumohl. Given the continued unevenness of the global economy, and Europe's move toward consolidation as a continental...
...SPEAK UP Those who not only join network groups but also stand and deliver before them are in effect advertising their expertise. Wisnik, for example, conducts legal training seminars through the United Jewish Appeal. Attorneys pay a fee to attend the seminars, which raise money for the charity, and Wisnik benefits through client referrals. But what really keeps her going is gratitude. The u.j.a. paid for Wisnik, her parents and her brother to emigrate to the U.S. from Poland 30 years...
...thinks, over and over, This is our last evening together, and she doesn't know. When a tender thought creeps in, he instantly stomps on it. Going upstairs to watch her sleep, he thinks, "I can make out your hair in the jumble of blankets and pillows. I stand looking at you. I wish you were someone else...
What's the appeal? On one level a tale of plangent melodrama: a group with three Jewish and three Gentile members trying to stand tall and cool under the Nazi boot. The Comedian Harmonists had some friends in high places, including Gauleiter Julius Streicher. At one concert a punk in the balcony shouted venom about the dirty Jews, but the Nazi brass in the front rows stood and cheered the group until the punk shut...
...boys from 'N SYNC have enough hits to stand on their own, however. The powerful encore of "I Want You Back," their version of Christopher Cross' "Sailing" (during which the angelic-looking boys, now wearing white, were flown by hydraulics over the teeming masses) and the barnburner "Tearin' Up My Heart" brought the already-hyped crowd into frenzied convulsions of dancing and screaming...