Word: traded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...quota bill come up three votes short on a procedural vote that would have boosted its chance of passing. Clinton the economist is fighting the quotas ?- meant to protect U.S. steelmakers from lower-priced foreign steel ?- on compelling grounds: They would almost certainly be a violation of current U.S. trade treaties. And at a time when Clinton pounds the world?s podiums calling for globalization and freer trade (meaning more U.S. products in foreign markets), the last thing the U.S. needs is to fire the first shot in the next trade...
...rough-and-ready maiden speech on Saturday. "I'm running, and I'm running hard. I'm taking my front-porch campaign to every front porch in this state." Standing between bales of hay and farm tractors, Bush drew only broad strokes for reduced taxes and regulation, free trade, a strong military and an aggressive approach to education. He made official the mantra of his run. "I'm proud to be a compassionate conservative. I welcome the label and, on this ground, I will make my stand...
Ironically, fund managers will continue to buy freshly minted Internet stocks, if only to flip them back into the market for one-day gains. The days when every Internet IPO would double or triple on the first trade have vanished. But most still go up a quick 20% to 30%, low-hanging fruit for any money manager who can get shares at the IPO price. Lately, though, even the easy money has been harder to come by. A handful of recent Internet IPOs quickly fell below their IPO price, and dozens trade below the price of the first trade, which...
...traveling by plane, the pressure of being in public may be enough to quell quarrels among siblings; if it isn't, you can always trade seats with one of them. Unfortunately, there's no stigma attached to brawling in the car, and there's less room for rearranging bodies. (The safest place for any child 12 or under is in the backseat, with the proper safety restraint.) Candyce Stapen has resorted to masking tape to stake out territory for her two kids, but pillows and rolled-up sleeping bags work...
...straw, unleashing a wave of sometimes violent anti-U.S. protests in China and bringing the Washington-Beijing relationship grinding to a halt. "Beijing certainly manipulated Chinese public opinion following the bombing, but its objective is a lot more than securing more favorable terms for entry into the World Trade Organization," says Dowell. "It wants the U.S. to acknowledge China?s importance on the international stage, particularly in the Asian region." And that?ll take more than a slide lecture by a U.S. diplomat on the foibles of Washington?s strategic mapmakers...