Word: trades
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Positive externalities to the struggling central business districts of our cities, and excitement about the local sports team. Entrepreneurship, gains to trade, capitalism...
Much of the talk about such privacy and security issues centers around mega-unethical-corporation X and its trade secrets. However, big companies aren't the only ones vulnerable to having their information viewed or manipulated...
...again and again abandoned them when the tables were turned. Consider how their fortunes have differed in the six years since Clinton rode into the capital as a new kind of Democrat: the President triumphed in his deals with Republicans to balance the budget, reform welfare and open trade. Cutting his party loose, he launched his own job-approval ratings to gravity-defying heights. Meanwhile, Democrats lost not only their New Deal traditions but also 52 seats in the House and a dozen in the Senate, rendering them all but irrelevant in the institution over which they once held...
...miles on either carrier and, to a certain extent, pool them. But while that might grant flyers more options, it could also limit competition and further increase already sky-high demand for free seats. Frequent-flyer programs are shrouded in secrecy, but according to Randy Petersen, editor of the trade magazine InsideFlyer, most airlines make only about 7% of seats on a major route available for saver awards. Although an estimated 15 million passengers flew free last year, and 65% of all members redeemed miles for a ticket, upgrade or hotel or car-rental rebate, millions still feel cheated...
...more earthly kind of intervention: he is in New York City this week at the United Nations, where he will appeal to Bill Clinton to lift economic sanctions--imposed after the nuclear tests--and push the International Monetary Fund into mounting a rescue. As part of the trade-off, Clinton wants him to sign the nuclear test-ban treaty. This may help him get the money he urgently needs, but would anger fundamentalists at home who would see this as capitulation and surrender...