Word: trades
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...real job of the affable Berger is to be Mr. Inside, the daily consensus builder brokering honestly among competing interests from State, Defense, the intelligence community, the NSC staff. He'll be there to get the job done. This rumpled trade lawyer lacks the intellectual heft of Lake but is a better bureaucratic synthesizer, a noted detail man, and he is well liked by just about everyone in the Administration...
...widely appreciated, though, is how he hopes the used-car superstores--each planned to have 1,000 or more cars in stock, and each generating $100 million in annual revenue--will fit into his ultimate scheme. In Wayne's world, you never get attached to cars. You trade them every couple of years until they're scrap--and every stop along the way, he gets a piece of the action...
...handling issues of labor, education or health is different than depending on her to preserve our reputation and strengthen our abilities as the world's superpower. While much of Albright's work will involve economic foreign policymaking such as promoting the advantages of NATO and negotiating new treaties on trade, this is not the realm in which the selection of a woman is so mind-breaking. I am not suggesting that economic issues are light, requiring little strength or intelligence. The point is merely that there is a greater concern over national security, for these issues are most likely...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: The U.S. trade deficit surged to a record $48 billion for the July-September quarter as American exports fell for the first time in three years. Although the 19.3 percent rise in the deficit since the second quarter seems alarming, TIME's Bernard Baumohl says the worst may be over. "The U.S. is still importing a lot of goods from overseas because the economy is still strong," Baumohl reports. "Japan and Europe are in an economic slump and are not purchasing a lot of exports." Baumohl says the trend is close to shifting. "The trade deficit is expected...
...Aldrich Ames is here, as is hot-off-the-press documentation gleaned from the long-secret U.S. "Venona" decrypts of Russian intelligence, which pretty much confirm the guilt of the late Alger Hiss. More than 2,000 entries deal with the history of spying, the complexities of cryptography and trade jargon (dry clean: to determine whether one is under surveillance; pianist: a clandestine radio operator; swallow: Russian term for a female agent assigned to seduce a target; raven: the male counterpart of a swallow). Beyond these terms are detailed entries about notable spies of yesteryear (Daniel Defoe, Christopher Marlowe...