Word: trades
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Lindner, the conservative tycoon from Cincinnati, Ohio, who heads Chiquita Brands, gives much more money to Republicans than Democrats. That helps explain why, when he needed a big favor from the Clinton Administration two years ago, he may have wanted to hide his footprints. Lindner wanted U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor to help him pry open European markets, which rely on various tariffs and trade barriers effectively to shut out Lindner's bananas. Though hundreds of companies ask Washington to investigate unfair trade practices, the U.S. Trade Representative accepts only about 14 cases each year. Even fewer are taken...
Both sides agreed to speed up cutbacks in strategic nuclear weapons if the Russian parliament finally ratifies START II, the nuclear arms reduction treaty signed in 1993. Washington also pledges to support Russia's increased participation in major international economic organizations like the World Trade Organization and the Group of Seven industrialized nations. Russia will take part in the G-7 conference in Denver this June, now to be called "the Summit of Eight...
Given the growing trade imbalance, it especially irritates some American lawmakers that China is pressing for permanent most-favored-nation status, a guarantee of minimum tariffs. China is the only one of the 191 most favored nations whose status is renewed each year by a vote in Congress. That ensures a humiliating annual review on Capitol Hill of how Beijing punishes dissidents, suppresses Tibet and sells missiles to rogue states. Along with winning permanent MFN status, China wants to be admitted to the World Trade Organization, a goal the U.S. and other nations are obstructing until China lowers trade barriers...
...started as a form of verbal jousting--good-natured wordplay. Gangsta rap, with its themes of low riding and thuggery, raised the stakes. Now, a record-label president says, "a lot of the people who are the new players are coming from the drug trade or gang-related backgrounds. I myself have had death threats...
...Administration believes it can make more progress with the Chinese on tough political issues such as human rights in private one-on-one meetings than it can through public confrontations on its social and political policies. While Gore is expected to discuss China's critically-important most favored nation trading status, the trade deficit, nuclear proliferation, missile sales and human rights, he has no desire to provoke the government in public. He told reporters vaguely that he would raise the issue of human rights only "in the context of the overall agenda." As TIME's Beijing bureau chief Jaime Florcruz...