Word: yukon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...come-from-behind win on NAFTA, Clinton's advisers insist, will help prove to voters that the President has the mettle to withstand even tougher fights that loom next year. And they add that the promise of a free-trade zone from the Yukon to the Yucatan makes it easier for Clinton to force trade concessions from Japan and other Asian nations as well as press for a successful completion of the current round of talks on the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade by Dec. 15. "A good GATT agreement could create 1.4 million American jobs and boost...
...went in to see the dean of this place and I said, 'I've got a big problem, because my wife isn't interested in the Queen Charlotte Islands or the Yukon, or anywhere where there'd be logging," McArthur says. "[The dean] used to call himself 'we,' and he said, 'We think you should go to Harvard Business School,' which I didn't know about...
Bluefish Caves, Yukon Territory...
Discovered in 1975 by researchers with the Archaeological Survey of Canada, these caves in the remote northern Yukon have yielded flaked stone tools that are 10,000 to 13,000 years old, what appear to be butchered mammoth bones 15,500 to 20,000 years old and bone tools from perhaps 23,500 years ago. To date, however, the researchers have been unable to find any hearths or other cultural features...
...Nations, warned of new confrontations as indigenous peoples sought redress through roadblocks and public protests instead. Still, Canada's attempts to codify native self-government was the latest sign that the struggle for political recognition by native peoples across North and South America is bearing some fruit. From the Yukon to Yuma to Cape Horn, indigenous peoples are using new strategies to recover some of the land, resources and sovereignty they lost in the past 500 years. They have negotiated, sued, launched international campaigns, occupied land and, in a few cases, taken up arms to press their cause, marking...