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Cordingly also shows how the so-called “triangle trade??, the lifeblood of slavery and European colonial development, almost failed because of buccaneer attacks. As the colonies of the New World grew, so did the pirate threat, until its abrupt end at the hands of colonial authorities in the late 1720s...
...emissions at current levels by 2015 and reduce them by 10 percent by 2020. Massachusetts was set to join RGGI in 2005, but Gov. Mitt W. Romney pulled the Commonwealth from the pact late last year. Browner said several times that she favors a “cap-and-trade?? proposal like RGGI under which each industrial facility would be allocated a certain number of “emission credits,” with the total number of credits set by the government. Plants that emit less than their credit limit of greenhouse gases could sell their unused...
...Hiscox and Nicholas F. B. Smyth ’05, who wrote his thesis on their research, carried out the social labeling experiment at ABC Carpet and Home, an upscale Manhattan housewares store. They compared the sales of towels and candles, to which a “fair trade?? label had been applied, to similar products that did not carry the label. The label included a statement that certified that the product was made in a “safe and healthy working environment which is free of discrimination.” Hiscox and Smyth found that sales...
...China. For a decade, London had rejected China’s insistence that British royal officials could only communicate with provincial Chinese authorities indirectly by way of “petition,” instead of on terms of diplomatic equality. There was also irritation with Chinese constraints on trade??Western traders were confined to Canton (modern Guangzhou) lest too many foreigners should disturb the tranquility of Chinese life. But the British, like everyone else, were dazzled by the prospect of a limitless Chinese market, if only they could get there; so they wanted more ports opened...
...must take the form of collective action—while individual protest may do little to affect a corporation’s practices, an organized, widespread boycott can have a major impact, as shown by the public campaign that triggered Starbucks’ shift to “fair trade?? coffee...