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Under his tenure, Pryor said he also tried to draw a wider campus audience to IOP events. This fall, for example, former president and fellow Arkansas-native Bill Clinton spoke at the IOP. His speech drew more than 6,000 spectators to the Gordon track...
...This had a lot to do with Sept. 11. It occurred to me at the time that there is a paucity of institutions to meet interest. I want to promote a wider and better understanding of Middle Eastern cultures,” Gray said...
...losses from higher U.S. steel prices would be minimal. But in a study commissioned by a steel users group, economists Laura Baughman and Joseph Francois concluded that if tariffs rose to 20.7% (a weighted-average figure), the resulting higher steel prices would cost 74,500 jobs in the wider U.S. economy. The number of steel-producing jobs that would be saved: 8,900--at a cost of $451,509 for each protected steelmaking job. Independent analysts agree that the net job loss could number in the tens of thousands. "No matter what Bush decides in terms of a trade remedy...
...also likely that import restraints would spark a wider trade war. U.S. imports of key steel products, such as hot-rolled sheet, actually declined from the end of 1998 through 2001, and under World Trade Organization rules, America's trading partners may be authorized to retaliate immediately if the U.S. imposes hefty tariffs or quotas. In a speech in London in December, Pascal Lamy, the European Union's chief trade negotiator, vowed that the E.U. would lodge a WTO complaint if the U.S. blocked steel imports...
...Eating Concerns Hotline and Outreach (ECHO), a student-run support group that offers a hotline and peer counseling, will seek a wider audience this week with workshops and displays about eating disorders at the Science Center...