Word: trading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mail lists, signs, presentations, advertisements and personal pleas have become the tools of the diversification trade as student groups try to draw in a more diverse set of volunteers, tour guides, or editors than their organizations have usually attracted...
...easy to see only the Africa that's broken. While many of these countries cannot quite stand on their own, what they want from the West is no longer just a benefactor but a partner. Although the U.S. trade-liberalization bill passed two weeks ago by the House of Representatives is mostly symbolic in easing the terms for America's minuscule trade with Africa, it moves in the right direction of shifting aid from handouts to the development of sustainable economies...
...Addressing the country's parliament today, the President proclaimed partnership, repeated his ?trade-not-aid? mantra, and dished out the plaudits to President Nelson Mandela and his anointed heir, Thabo Mbeki. Nothwithstanding the bonhomie, there may also be some tough talking between the President and his hosts. Mbeki has publicly criticized Clinton over trade issues, while South Africa?s relationships with Washington?s rogues gallery -- Cuba, Libya, Iran and others -- creates periodic spats between the two governments. But none of this will subvert the relationship between the U.S. and the nation with Africa?s strongest economy...
...schoolyard shooting in Arkansas, there was other news out there. The NYT led with a green-card snafu at INS, and WP and LAT went with President Clinton's sounded-awfully-like-an-apology-but-wasn't remarks in Uganda over how the U.S. "wronged" Africa with the slave trade. Apparently the comments were impromptu, and are giving aides fits...
Here at TIME we regularly publish lists of superlatives, such as our project that begins next month profiling the 100 Most Influential People of the Century. Now, we're pleased to report, TIME has turned up atop a prestigious list of someone else's crafting. Adweek, a major advertising trade journal, has declared TIME No. 1 on its list of the 10 hottest magazines of 1997. TIME last graced the list in 1983, in the No. 7 spot...