Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...verbal support of the Clinton administration, is pushing for the WTO to enforce minimum labor standards in developing countries, protesting that manufacturers are exploiting sweatshop conditions. But the governments of many developing countries see this as an attempt by Washington to protect American jobs at the expense of the Third World poor. With low labor costs often the only competitive advantage many developing countries have in the global economy, they fear that enforcing labor standards will simply expand unemployment in the developing world...
...city's Third Quarter Crime Report shows that occurrences of almost all Type I crimes have decreased. This category includes more serious crimes like murder, robbery or assault, with violent crime dropping by 13 percent overall...
...course, Y2K still might cause a lot of problems in the world's computers. Especially in third-world nations and in former communist countries, Y2K preparedness is not good. While the United States government started debugging its computer systems years ago, other nations have barely started. A serious disaster on New Year's Day is still a real possibility...
...problems in the new dining halls could be solved if HUDS decided to hire more full-time employees. Under the old arrangement, Eliot and Kirkland shared a kitchen and four chefs. Now, each has a separate kitchen and two overworked chefs. If HUDS committed to hiring a third chef to share between the two halls--an idea that is under consideration now--it would cut the strain on the chefs substantially. Doing so would also directly benefit students. As it is, the two-chef teams in Eliot and Kirkland are often too busy to fill grill orders and struggle...
Last Monday's assault was the third "stranger rape" recorded in the city this year. There have been six incidences of "acquaintance rapes"--assaults where the victim knew the attacker...