Word: trading
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...Bratton and Wendy's founder Dave Thomas. Freemasonry probably began formally in the 1600s as an English gentleman's club, but by 1717 had evolved into an engine of the European Enlightenment. Its members were committed to egalitarianism, civic participation and other ideals expressed through tropes of the stoneworkers trade: the square for straightforward virtue; the compass to circumscribe one's passions; the plumb line to stay upright. There was little religion but much ritual, which enraged churchmen and engaged conspiracy theorists, who still flood the Web with Masonic villainies, but it posed no problem for the Deists, who frequented...
...Clinton Administration and the U.S. Congress take the threat seriously, but are preoccupied with other issues. The trade-minded Clintonites are more interested in cracking open India's vast, protected markets. "We were telling the Indians we'd prefer not to talk about awkward subjects like nuclear proliferation and concentrate on trade instead," says Gary Millhollin at the Wisconsin University Project on Nuclear Arms Control...
...hopes of rallying more punishing global sanctions looked dim. India's biggest donor, Japan, froze new grants, then suspended all loans for future projects, costing India roughly $1 billion. But none of the other nuclear powers--Britain, France, Russia or China--was willing to cut off aid or trade...
...will to power is a notion utterly alien to the gentlemen and ladies of the Clinton Administration. What a retrograde, common idea. In the world of geoeconomics and globalization, of international community and cooperation, of trade and togetherness, how primitive--how zero-sum--these dreams of power...
...verify Glass's latest effort, the lovingly detailed story of a pimply 15-year-old computer hacker recruited by the corporation whose data network he had just penetrated. The piece features vivid characters (a "super-agent to the super-nerds," who is said to represent 300 hackers), a trade association called the National Assembly of Hackers and a California software firm called Jukt Micronics. None of it is real. When Digital Tool started asking questions, Glass created a phony corporate website for Jukt and a bogus voice mail that belonged to his brother's cell phone...