Word: vows
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...jobs lost to cheaper Mexican labor. Most telling, opponents say, is that under NAFTA a $1.4 billion trade surplus in 1994 has plummeted to a $15.4 billion deficit. Congressmen are also unhappy that fast track has prevented them from adding labor and environmental safeguards to the pact, and vow not to let that happen on any hemisphere-wide agreement. As a result, the rest of the region is increasingly nervous about just how hard Clinton will fight for fast-track leverage. Clinton's seven-day Latin American swing is designed to allay those fears...
...mansion's main hall. Among the bullet holes that riddled Cerpa's body was a single one in the forehead. Having erased with finality the multiple humiliations of the 126-day hostage crisis, Fujimori can credibly claim to have made good on his 1995 re-election campaign vow: to squash terrorism in Peru. Asked at a Thursday press conference whether the country had seen the end of the Tupac Amaru, Fujimori was understandably cautious and said "not necessarily." But despite promises of retribution made by the rebels' international spokesman, nearly all the movement's leaders are now either dead...
...Liberation Army (N.L.A.) of Iran is 30,000 strong, fully armored and ready at any moment to do battle. Some 35% of its soldiers are women, as are 70% of its officers. The troops wear no insignia of rank, live communally and receive no pay. They have taken a vow to remain celibate until Iran is freed. And all express near fanatical loyalty to the woman they hope to install as the next President of Iran: Maryam Rajavi...
...arrive home for winter vacation after spending a semester learning from mostly inaccessible professors and preoccupied teaching fellows. Every year at the end of December, I think to myself that many have been wonderful and some have been less than wonderful, but all have been, well, male. I vow that the next semester I will pick some classes taught by women...
When Seventh District Representative Kweisi Mfume resigned in February to become president of the NAACP, Cummings easily won an April special election to fill that seat, and he's running now for his first full term. The son of sharecroppers, he vows to follow Mfume's path of liberalism and support for blacks and the urban poor. In his six months in office, Cummings has kept his vow, supporting economic development and affirmative action in black communities and sponsoring funding for urban teen centers to serve as alternatives to street gangs...