Word: trading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...speak from experience. We participate in many undergraduate activities. We have plenty of time to argue over American foreign policy at dinner or to debate the aesthetic value of our napkin dispensers. We wouldn't trade that part of the Harvard experience for a Ph.D. But the beauty of Advanced Standing is that we never had to make that choice. Most Advanced Standing students stay for four years, and face virtually no external obstacles to participation or advancement...
...millennium's turn, to no symbolic, ironic, metaphysical or literary effect whatsoever. Who cares? It's a caustic parody of platinum-card pretension in New Jersey's upper-middle-class 'burbs. Everyone drives I-got-mine-mobiles, lives in we-got-ours palazzos and connives ceaselessly to trade up for yet grander cars, real estate, spouses and even, Lord love a duck, tennis partners. Was it this way in 1974, when Will and Joel were big-shot seniors at Verona High School? They don't know...
When MATTHEW MARTINEZ (D., Calif.), an affable ex-Marine who represents a swath of suburban Los Angeles, attended the White House luncheon for Mexican President ERNESTO ZEDILLO last November, he had something that President Clinton wanted: a potential vote for the fast-track trade bill. And Clinton had something Martinez wanted: power to approve the $1.4 billion Long Beach freeway extension, blocked by environmentalists and historic preservationists for two decades. When a Clinton lobbyist approached him, Martinez was ready: "Why should I vote for fast track when it's like pulling teeth to get anything from [the President]?" Martinez recalls...
...contrast, attending one class during shopping period necessarily means missing out on the introduction to another course. Even if we wiggle our way out in the middle of the hour to scramble to another lecture, we unavoidably lose out on its opening. The KSG system demands no such trade...
Pork and the Fast Track How bad did the Clinton administration want fast-track trade legislation? Maybe enough to build a Los Angeles freeway...