Word: instead
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...which goods to attack? President Clinton could have slapped the 100% tariff on, say, Mercedes-Benz autos imported from Germany, fine wines from France, or elegant women's shoes from Italy. But that might have provoked retaliation by the Europeans against major American exports. So instead the President chose to punish smaller and less important European companies--companies that furnished bath products to Reinert, prints to Kaplan and batteries to Dove. In short, the Administration came down with a heavy foot on relatively powerless citizens. People who, like 99% of the population, contribute little or no money directly to politicians...
Worse still, the E.U. announced that instead of an open market, which Chiquita had hoped for, it would expand the old system, with quotas and tariffs on bananas brought in from Latin America and preferential treatment for bananas grown in the former colonies. The new rules went into effect on July...
...like your brew and you like it strong, you might want to consider a study being released this week in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition about the effect of unfiltered coffee on the heart. It might persuade you to reach instead for a glass of orange juice...
...demographic-happy television, of course, age spots and weather lines do not an automatic green light make, living legend or not. Moore took the idea to CBS, but the seven-year home of MTM passed. ABC bit instead, though it ultimately agreed only to a movie, not the series Moore and Harper hoped for. "Even four or six episodes, even short orders are a lot more money and a bigger gamble," Harper concedes. The network has, however, retained series rights. "We just hope it's a terrifically successful movie for the network, and then we can evaluate where...
...first, it must have seemed like indoor recess. Instead of long division, kids thought, we get to see a movie! Then the one-reel drama began, and all pleasure ended. Nick, the antihero of Benefits of Looking Ahead, foresees his future as a lonely bum--unless he builds a table in Shop. In Habit Patterns, Barbara sobs because she's a slob ("You make a pretty picture," the catty narrator says, "with your rumpled skirt, your spotted sweater and your hair in a tizzy"). John, in Narcotics: Pit of Despair, takes that first fatal drag on a joint and instantly...