Word: ultimatum
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Those concerned for labor standards and environmental protections in developing nations should quickly see through unthinking calls for abolishing the WTO. The best means of improving conditions will be through more integration of developing nations into a world trading system, not less. A blanket ultimatum conditioning trade on such standards would drive other nations away from the bargaining table...
...annihilate the population of Grozny, and Britain's Tony Blair warns Moscow that "we're watching you." But those warnings - and even the IMF's decision to withhold its latest aid installment because of Russia's campaign - appear to have had little impact on Moscow. Despite Monday's ultimatum by the Russian military that civilians should leave Grozny by Saturday or else "be destroyed," Russian forces continued their heavy shelling of the city Tuesday, making it impossible for civilians sheltering in the city to leave...
...very simple in common: we had both done too much. We hadn't known when to stop. We had become addicts. We had gone through dark seasons at the end of which someone--in his case his partners at CAA and in mine my wife--had given us an ultimatum: get clean or get out. And we ended up at this treatment center outside Portland...
...This year, however, PfoHo and Currier joined forces and presented their larger Quad rival with "an ultimatum," in the words of Pforzheimer HoCo Chair Manuel A. Garcia '00, to "either have a fairer system, or we're going to have our own formal." Adds Currier House Committee chair Daniel L. Cendan '00, also a Crimson editor, "Our offer was equal in, equal out." Jones and Melissa Mueller '00, the other Cabot co-chair, brought the proposal back to their House masters and senior tutor, and, Jones claims, with an understanding that Currier and PfoHo "couldn't guarantee...
...logistics expertise will gird the multinational force that descends on East Timor. The peacekeeping agreement came after a week of difficult diplomacy, led by U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Annan publicly tried to persuade Indonesia to invite an international peacekeeping force. Privately, he pushed other nations to issue an ultimatum to Jakarta: permit such a force or it will be sent in uninvited. A failure to permit peacekeepers into a killing zone like East Timor, he warned Jakarta, was perilously close to a crime against humanity. When Habibie called Annan at home in New York at 7:45 Sunday morning...