Word: wanted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been overruled by the WTO, while laws against dumping low-cost steel in the U.S. may also be eliminated by the international body. Some of the more radical environmentalist groups, as well as conservatives such as Pat Buchanan, who traditionally oppose international organizations' having any jurisdiction over the U.S., want the organization disbanded. Others want to transform it to incorporate social and environmental concerns, charging that the WTO currently makes decisions affecting all of society on a purely commercial basis...
...Dumping Europe and Japan want a wide-ranging round of trade negotiations to include limits on the use of anti-dumping legislation to prevent cheap imports from undermining local industry. The U.S. favors a more limited agenda, excluding issues such as dumping, which are a major concern of U.S. labor...
American higher education starkly reflects this unwillingness to seriously label anyone unfit. Costa Rica, my home country, is an extremely egalitarian society in which it is considered bad form to make anyone else look bad, or to try to make yourself look too good. But if you want to get into the University of Costa Rica your performance on a standardized admissions exam is the only factor determining your admission and your ability to enter the career of your choice. The idea that a university should employ a large number of admissions officers devoted to reading application essays and listening...
...really want everyone to keep in touch and not forget about the four years they had here," she said...
...will learn just what the Aggie Bonfire was about when we can get our entire student body together to do something other than complain. If you want to find out for yourself, go to a basketball game in the Cage this week, go see the Kroks sing their hearts out, or go see an incredibly pretentious lecture...