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...loser would likely be Asia. Larry Martin, president of the American Apparel and Footwear Association, says that since 1994, when NAFTA went into effect, "the Mexican and Caribbean share of our imports has risen from 24% to 38%, while China's share has dropped from 11% to 6%." Brazil's footwear industry is overwhelmed in the U.S. by China, where costs are 10% lower, but foresees a boom if it can eliminate the current 8.5% U.S. tariff...
...some measures, the program is working spectacularly, with mass-transit ridership increasing 30%, auto commutes to downtown falling 15%, and solid-waste disposal from homes shrinking 13%. But the city's CO2 output has actually risen, mostly because of an unanticipated population boom in the Pacific Northwest. Portland is undeterred, however--pointing out that its European partners, which were spared such demographic shifts, have had success with similar strategies. The city is taking a second look at its own program and revising it as necessary. Efforts are also under way in other U.S. localities, including Miami-Dade County, which eliminated...
...First, the economic downturn struck some people as a just punishment for a dizzy era of excessive borrowing and spending. Many consumers saw the recession as a warning that their behavior had to change. Cutting back and putting away the plastic seem only prudent. Unemployment, currently at 6.5%, has risen steadily for eight months. Some people who used to ride in limousines are now driving them for a living. Then the life-and-death reality of the war came along and made the pursuit of glitz and status seem even more trivial. Americans saw their country pulling together with...
...restrictive states have fought back, challenging laws in court under their state constitutions, charging the state with discrimination. And they've been pretty successful: According to the Alan Guttmacher Institute, while only 13 states allowed state funds to be used to finance abortions in 1992, today that number has risen to 19, thanks primarily to constitutional challenges...
Before the program went into effect, Dolan dealt with 55 fights a year; now she averages six. Also, the school's standardized math and reading scores have risen from the 40th to the 60th percentile--in part, she thinks, because students are better able to focus on their studies...