Word: trading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Before concluding, Bauer returned to speaking of trade with China. Dismissing the argument that economic activity will change China, he said trade with China has transformed the U.S. into a "moneybags democracy...
Criticizing Washington's refusal to punish China for its record of human rights violations, he said trade has supplanted liberty as America's paramount value...
...chose her issues carefully--and, it emerged, luckily. The legal duels she took on early in her tenure as Prime Minister sounded the themes that made her an enduring leader: open markets, vigorous debate and loyal alliances. Among her first fights: a struggle against Britain's out-of-control trade unions, which had destroyed three governments in succession. Thatcher turned the nation's antiunion feeling into a handsome parliamentary majority and a mandate to restrict union privileges by a series of laws that effectively ended Britain's trade-union problem once and for all. "Who governs Britain?" she famously asked...
...Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk in August 1980, at age 37, to join the occupation strike. With his electrifying personality, quick wit and gift of the gab, he was soon leading it. He moved his fellow workers away from mere wage claims and toward a central, daringly political demand: free trade unions...
...following pages we've tried to highlight the roots of those clashes, and to introduce people from around the world who are fighting, with careful passion, for their beliefs. They immediately present a host of nuanced, difficult questions. To what extent should we trade off our environment for our economy? How should the advancement of a secular global mentality make room for God? As the world becomes increasingly integrated by technology and communications, these questions will become more relevant. Economic shifts in Kuala Lumpur can, we have seen, trigger shocks in Phoenix. The destruction of Brazil's rain forests...