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...trade: Bush took steps to open world markets, including a free trade pact with Canada and Mexico and the liberalization of global trading rules. Heading into the year, he took a tougher stance with Japan on its trade imbalance with the U.S. But his mission to Tokyo with U.S. chief executives was widely viewed as a bust...
...bike outside Berlin in August 1990, Boerner was struck -- deliberately, she claims -- by a driver behind the wheel of a Trabant, the flimsiest vehicle on four wheels. "If it had been a real car, I wouldn't be here," she can now joke. But even Trabants are tougher than bikes, and Boerner broke an ankle and tore ligaments in her knee, which sent her to a hospital for months...
...church was trying to modulate the whole situation," explains one of the NSC officials who directed the effort to curtail the pipeline. "They ((church leaders)) were in effect trying to create circumstances that would head off the serious threat of Soviet intervention while allowing us to get tougher and tougher; they were part and parcel of virtually all of our deliberations in terms of how we viewed the evolution of government-sponsored repression in Poland -- whether it was lessening or getting worse, and how we should proceed...
...afraid these kinds of business crimes will become more and more prominent in the future," says U.S. Attorney Michael Chertoff, whose Newark office is involved in both the IRS and Social Security cases. "Information has become so valuable, and the government is really its largest consumer." Without tougher monitoring from within, the government may also unwittingly become its largest vendor...
...Tsongas faces what could be a tougher battle against Bill Clinton, his nearest competitor in New Hampshire, when the two vie for votes in the South and Midwest, where citizens may be looking less for economic realities and more for a touch of flair...