Word: unfriendlyness
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Unfriendly commentators seized on their plight to complain that the rules under which Chinese immigrants, in particular, can claim political asylum are overly generous. Under a Bush-ordered loophole in the law, Chinese who say they are victimized by Beijing's strict one-child population rules can enter the country...
But there is little evidence that Clinton will go along with such steps. If he fails to adjust quickly, he will confirm the widespread belief that the biggest problem with the Clinton presidency is Clinton himself. Unless he can, as he likes to say, make change his friend, he is...
Man-made chemicals are destroying the ozone layer, but so are natural ones. The 1991 Mount Pinatubo eruption spewed ozone-unfriendly chlorine compounds into the air; researchers believe that these were partly responsible for the record-breaking ozone hole that opened up over Antarctica last year.
"He just said, 'It would be inappropriate and I can't meet with you,'" Orenstein said. "He made me feel uncomfortable, but I wouldn't say he was hostile or unfriendly."
The rest of the world has an enormous stake in a game it can influence only marginally. Yeltsin may have exaggerated when he called his opponents cold warriors eager to reignite the global arms race and return to angry confrontations with the West. But an assertive Russia under a nationalist...