Word: trades
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...telling reporters that it "was not working properly" and "needed to be improved." While Gephardt is decidedly an underdog in the early running for 2000, the AFL-CIO may view him as a way to keep Gore and Clinton off-balance as it continues to chip away at Administration trade policies it doesn?t like. As for Gore, Carney reports, his task in Los Angeles was to tread lightly before a group that is Gephardt?s natural constituency, defending Administration policies while making clear that he?ll change them the first chance he gets...
...appointing him to the job, not the President," she instructed an aide who was acting as go-between. "And I am the one to whom he will report." Next she launched something of a counterstrike at the Commerce Department, which had grabbed much of State's control over international trade and economic sanctions during the first term. Recruiting Commerce Under Secretary Stuart Eizenstat as her Under Secretary for Economic Affairs meant that he could stuff those issues in his briefcase and bring them back to State. Likewise, by tapping Thomas Pickering, considered the five-star general of the diplomatic corps...
...embarrassment to the western hemisphere." Iraq and Iran will continue to be ostracized by a Secretary who says "their raison d'etre is to destroy the international system." The high-wire act for Albright will be to speak firmly enough to satisfy U.S. critics who charge that trade-conscious Clinton is soft on China but not so harshly that she alienates Beijing. By all accounts, though, Albright's public tough talk turns charming in private. As Paul Wolfowitz, dean of international affairs at Johns Hopkins University, notes, "She didn't roll Jesse Helms by giving up her views...
...teenager for a weekend in Paris with a married earl. As ambassador, her fluent French, hard work and access to the highest officials in Washington and Paris eased the sting of such contentious Franco-American issues as NATO expansion and differences over the Middle East, U.N. leadership and trade...
...liquor industry it's something to celebrate, albeit quietly. Yes, the figures say Americans increased consumption of whiskey, gin and other distilled spirits ever so slightly last year, breaking a 15-year decline. Some 135 million cases of the stuff went down, according to Impact, an industry trade journal. "With the economy being fairly buoyant, people are in a position to indulge themselves more," says Jamie Prusak, vice president of Schieffelin & Somerset, a liquor distributor. The increase also reflects--note all those lighted cigars--a revolt against the saintly life, known as the "pleasure revenge...