Word: whether
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Whether or not Harvard can get off on the right foot will depend much on the early play of junior forward Dan Clemente. Against both Lehigh and Marist, Clemente got off to an uncharacteristically cold start. Though he finished those two games with a combined 46 points, only 11 came in the first half...
...attention. In fact, in a performance truly remarkable for a woman of 17 (no less a film rookie), Emilie Duquenne, in the title role, fills the lens in every tightly shot frame. Duquenne's performance is one of subtlety and internal calculation. Her vacant expression as she decides whether she should save her drowning friend is absolutely chilling, and the defiance demonstrated when Rosetta catches her mother in an aforementioned compromising position is absolutely remarkable, because she refuses to overplay the character. Such an extent of delicacy and nuance in portrayal is all too rare...
These issues will not be solved in Seattle. At most the Seattle meeting will agree to launch a new round of negotiations over many years to solve these issues in the future. We'll see in the next few days whether the world can hold itself to standards of fairness, efficiency and transparency --the high principles that underpin the WTO--or whether the melee on the streets will be mirrored in an ongoing melee among the world's governments...
...been helpful in expanding trade on a broad front. But trade policy has its low side as well--a battle of narrow interests posturing as national or even international interests. The AFL-CIO is keen to keep out manufactured goods that developing countries can successfully export to the U.S., whether textiles from very low-wage countries or steel from Korea, Brazil and Russia. It marches in Seattle under the hypocritical (or to be more generous, simply erroneous) claim that it represents the interests of the world's workers, when it is in fact mostly representing its own members...
...right question is whether the WTO standards--to which the U.S. Congress agreed in 1994 --are appropriate. The environmentalists say no, because under WTO rules a country generally can't stop the import of goods from countries on the basis of whether or not we like how those goods have been produced. The U.S. and European trade unions say no, because under WTO rules we generally can't stop the import of goods from countries on the basis of how the workers are treated or how much they earn...