Word: trades
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been cutting out early for the weekend. It's the busy season: they work late and start again early because the Do-Nothing Congress needs something to run on in November. And so last week saw everything from a vote to send condolences to Florida for its wildfires to trade votes, abortion fights and a health-care bill passed just moments before the bell rang shortly after 3:10 p.m., telling lawmakers that school was out, the week's work was over and they could go home. John Boehner, the fourth-ranking House Republican, was sitting in his hideaway...
...incident got Batt thinking: How could his small, 70-bed community hospital offer low-income patients a way to pay for the rising cost of health care? Could they trade their skills for medical treatment? After all, barter may have fallen on hard times, but it's an American tradition: for decades people exchanged services for goods, not dollars. A country doctor's fee might be a bushel of potatoes or a freshly baked...
...spill most of her beans in public. On the high side, publisher Judith Regan estimates that Monica's story is worth "maybe as much as a million," while Robert Gottlieb of the William Morris Agency puts the number in the low six figures. Larry Kirshbaum of Time Warner Trade Publishing is closefisted, saying, "I think we're all bimboed out." The supermarket tabloids are similarly split. The Star's Phil Bunton has a standing offer of $1 million to hear Lewinsky's story, while the Globe's Tony Frost has "scant interest." Meanwhile, right-wing publisher Regnery next week becomes...
WASHINGTON: Newt Gingrich is at the mound, and whipping curveballs at President Clinton. On Tuesday House Republicans suddenly revived Clinton's bid for fast-track powers to negotiate trade agreements; Wednesday saw them defer a vote on IMF funding until September. "Republicans are delaying the IMF vote to build up their leverage in September's budget fight," says TIME correspondent Jay Carney. "By introducing fast-track at the same time, they're trying to soften corporate criticism of their IMF stand by supporting pro-business legislation -- and making the Democrats squirm by reviving their most divisive issue...
...billion annual trade deficit the U.S. has with China cast a shadow over President Clinton's visit there. The Chinese government has made great efforts to sell to Americans, but it has gone to even greater lengths to prevent Americans from selling to China. Tariffs, quotas, obscure laws, prejudicial inspections and so on are routinely used by Chinese authorities to prevent American sales. This reverberates in the U.S., affecting thousands of companies and workers. It is time for Clinton to try strenuously to break down all the Chinese trade barriers. For starters, how about trying to get China to grant...