Word: trades
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...very least, the dull but profound business of trade rules--which are usually hammered out by technocrats in closed meetings with corporate lobbyists hovering outside--will figure differently in the thinking of the millions of Americans whom the decisions affect. That might even happen soon enough to influence the next U.S. election, which helps account for some of the ways that Bill Clinton, who arrived in Seattle smack in the middle of the chaos, positioned himself when he got there. But neither Clinton nor U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky was able to avert what must be viewed as a disaster...
...relatives and his father and grandparents in Cuba. As soon as Elian was plucked from the ocean, Cuban-American politicians appropriated him as a poster child, even using a photo of him lying on a gurney to illustrate anti-Castro placards distributed at last week's World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle. "If the image of a child can be effective in campaigns like muscular dystrophy, then it can make people aware of Castro's victims," says Ninoska Perez-Castellon, spokeswoman of the Cuban-American National Foundation in Miami. "Elian's mother lost her life to give him a future...
...Seattle meeting of the World Trade Organization, the bureaucrats may not have accomplished all that much last week. The chaos that surrounded them did. In this moment of triumphant capitalism, of planetary cash flows and a priapic Dow, all the second thoughts and outright furies about the global economy collected on the streets of downtown Seattle and crashed through the windows of NikeTown. After two days of uproar scented with tear gas and pepper spray, Americans may never again think the same way about free trade and what it costs...
...fever has definitely caught on," says Steve Babbitt, the Coop's trade book manager. "She's been pretty popular all over the place...
Students cannot accept a world where people our age are denied an education because they must work for pennies, without clean air, without clean water and without their rights. No trade is worth that...