Word: trading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Roger Clemens created a lot of hullabaloo with his recent trade to the New York Yankees...
...Yorkers blasted the trade of Clemens for David Wells because Wells was the prototypical New Yorker--brash, crass and with a large ass. That's not to mention that he could pitch a pretty good nine...
Last summer Russia's collapse had the peculiar result of spurring foreign banks and money managers to run screaming from Brazil--and Brazil's tumble cascaded through Latin America. "So we are living in this funny interconnected world," says Naim, "where a country that does not trade with Latin America, does not have investments with Latin America, is on the other side of the world from Latin America, crashes and takes down Latin America...
...peace in Ireland and elsewhere. But this year, when his moral authority was systematically stripped, we could not help being aware of the governing he didn't do despite spectacular opportunities. He could dispatch planes to Iraq but not troops, nothing requiring broad debate and consent. He could not trade pet projects with Republicans in Congress--I'll give you school vouchers if you give me the patients' bill of rights--because he could not afford to annoy any Democrats. And so, in the end, there was no tobacco deal...
...memory serves, Clinton came to the White House determined to shift U.S. foreign policy from its dependence on weaponry and cold war alliances to the peace-era pursuit of civilian technologies and free trade. He salted his national-security bureaucracy with arms-control advocates who had been frozen out during 12 years of build-'em-up Republican rule. In particular, he promised to slash as much as $20 billion from Ronald Reagan's beloved missile-defense program, and after he had been in office barely 100 days, the Clinton Pentagon killed the stripped-down Star Wars system, which had been...