Word: trades
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...months ago a friend and I got into a debate about China. Forget constructive engagement," I argued. Forget embargoes, trade sanctions and all the rest. The way to foster political liberalization and free market capitalism in the huge country is to somehow pump "Baywatch" into the homes of all its people. You know, a kind of 'Radio Free Asia' for the David-Hasselhoff-deprived. If China would just succumb to American pop culture like the rest of the world, my thinking went, it couldn't be long before it adopted our values as well...
...last two weeks, I've been using Dragon's Naturally Speaking on my Pentium-200 with pretty good results. NaturallySpeaking has gotten the best reviews by and large in trade publications, despite its relatively steep price of $199. From my experience, the praise for Dragon's product is well-deserved...
WASHINGTON: Is "Fast Track" finally limping toward the finish line? Tom Daschle's endorsement of the proposed presidential trade power Monday got enough Senate Democrats behind him for a 69-31 procedural vote ? not to pass it, mind you, just protect it a while...
...White House can protect its votes, Fast Track should pass the Senate eventually. That would set up quite a battle in the House, where Dick Gephardt, flush with support from Big Labor, is determined to hold out against Gore and the rest of the Administration's free-trade crowd. It's too early to pick a winner. But expect a casualty...
...trash that will see you through four hours at O'Hare, would say of Westlake, "Sure, clever fellow, writes detective stories." He doesn't, however. In the long list of his 60-some novels, the author recalls no detectives, no "police procedurals," as cop stories are called in the trade, no lawyer novels. Why? Mildly, but definitely, Westlake gives a surprising answer: "Authority is doing fine. They don't need my help." Spy novels, then? "No, they were never right for me. Those guys are working...