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...mechanisms for dispute resolution are clearly inadequate. For international trade agreements to be meaningful, they must have workable enforcement mechanisms. In the absence of these mechanisms, countries resort to unilateral actions which undercut the trading system. There must be, in any reconstitution of the GATT and in subsequent rounds, provision for the formation and operation of dispute resolution panels, adoption of panel recommendations and generous provisions for substantive retaliation, if the panel's recommendations are ignored...
...moment, relief officials on the ground were treating evacuation "as a last resort," said Foa. If U.N. troops do reach Srebrenica, the hope is that they will help quell panic among the population and thus make a massive evacuation unnecessary. They will also serve as what a U.N. spokesman called "the eyes and ears" of the world, and overseers of any laying down of arms. "People don't do dirty things in the night when international observers are walking around," said Foa. "I don't think the Serbs will risk the wrath of the world by moving...
...Warsh's "get personal" approach to economic journalism does not resort simply to visiting the bedrooms of prominent theorists. The book includes a catalog of snapshots from the lives of the last decade's Nobel Prize winners...
...promoting abortion might find it especially advisable to respect pro-life activism. What does the pro-choice movement have to fear from people offering women other options? The legitimacy of the pro-choice cause can only be helped by taking the stance that abortion should be a last resort instead of a form of birth control or lifestyle maintenance. In the struggle to make abortion "safe, legal and rare," the rhetoric used to justify the first two objectives tends to trivialize the moral reasons for the third, creating the impression that "pro-choice" means "pro-abortion...
...most of their 30 year history, the California Angels have made their home in the quiet desert resort town of Palm Springs, Calif...