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...access to foreign markets for American exporters. And nowhere is such an approach more necessary, many of Clinton's advisers say, than in dealing with Japan--whose trade surplus with America is growing, and whose leaders are not to be trusted. To get results in Japan, the argument goes, toothless multilateral pacts are a waste of time. You have to be tough...
...China's leading paleontologist, Dong Zhiming, believes some meat eaters too may have been caring parents. In fact, he takes the contrarian view that Oviraptor, a toothless predator whose very name means egg stealer, is the victim of a bum rap. The sharp-clawed creature has been found in close proximity to nests not because it was poised to devour unhatched babies but because "it was the mother and was protecting them," says Dong...
...seeking unspecified fines and court injunctions against former managing directors Paul Mozer and Thomas Murphy. Mozer and Murphy, who both contest the suit, also face possible criminal indictments. But not all of the SEC's actions had as much bite. In a settlement that some observers criticized as toothless, the federal watchdog agency fined three former top managers a combined $225,000 for their failure to provide proper supervision. John Gutfreund, chairman, was fined $100,000 and permanently barred from running a securities firm. Thomas Strauss, president, and John Meriwether, vice chairman, were both fined and suspended from Wall Street...
...Caribbean Basin Initiative (though largely toothless), for example, was an attempt to show that the Caribbean did merit international attention in the political world as independent nations. The move to hemispheric unity as presaged by the North American Free Trade Agreement will be further evidence of this...
...perpetrated by a country against its colonies, but rather the oldest generation against the youngest--being pitted against each other by the slightly over the hill people on the Hill. I am not willing to lie down and have my rights violated by a bunch of selfish, toothless, gray-hairs. Of course, with the amount of money they're pilfering from the national trust, I'm sure they can afford stylish hair dye and super-adhesive dentures, especially since the rest of us pick...