Politics & Policy
Clinton Aide
Brokered
Union Deal
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AFL - CIO Harvested
A Big Profit in Pact
For an `Affinity' Card
By Glenn R. Simpson
09/23/97
The Wall Street Journal
(Copyright (c) 1997, Dow Jones & Company,
Inc.)
WASHINGTON -- President Clinton's chief
fund-raiser, together with
BLS DAILY REPORT, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1997
All States except Alaska and Hawaii registered gains in
inflation-adjusted per capita personal income during 1996, with the
largest increases in the Plains region, according to revised figures
from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, Department of Commerc
valis writes: >I always assumed ... that the UN was a developing world
government,
and that assumption puts Turner's gift? / investment? / bribe? into an
uncertain and troubling perspective Is the UN due to be a thrift shop
for magnates, like the Senate after the Civil War?<
I think the poin
Five public employees unions have voted to stage a one-day general strike
throughout Puerto Rico on Oct. 1 to oppose the privatization campaign of
Governor Pedro Rossello.
In a resolution released September 10, representatives of the five
unions declared that "Puerto Rico is not for sale" a
I had referred to >>... the United States, now the only military
superpower, still a manufacturing and financial powerhouse ...<<
Dennis R Redmond writes that: >US manufacturing is pretty weak compared to
Central Europe and Japan, both as a percentage of GDP and in terms of its
product mix ...<
James Devine wrote:
>Yes, but the US is still a "powerhouse" compared to most of the world.
Speaking of which, more Fed leaks... Greenspan & Co. are reportedly very
worried about the Asian crisis and are convinced that the U.S. economy is
the only thing keeping the world economy from going down
There were several other factors.
The North wanted tariffs; the South, free trade. It did not want to pay
premium prices for Northern manufactured goods and it wanted maximum
access to the UK.
It was not so much slavery as such, but the extension of slavery. The
South needed growing slave outl
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The Emancipation Proclamation took effect on January 1, 1863, if memory
serves -- two years into the Civil War.
Sid Shniad
At 10:51 22/09/97 -0700, you Ricardo wrote:
>Thanks Ajit for the historical information. Yet I think
>your conception of culture is strictly descriptive in that it breaks
>down the term "culture" into a multiplicity of currents, thus
>disallowing any comprehensive theoretical assessment.
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Last June the Clark government announced its "Jobs and Timber Accord" that
included government subsidies for "alternative work arrangements" that would
create new jobs by limiting overtime. I've been on the phone for a week
trying to follow up on implementation. Guess what. Can't find out a thing.
Comment from a friend:
> Sid. Thanks so much for sending this--it's the most hilarious thing
> Amiel has ever written. Could it possibly be the result of whatever
> kind of drugs she is taking for whatever physical condition she's
> suffering from ( as yet undisclosed by Frank magazine.) It j
On the causes of the (U.S.) Civil War, in addition to the Domar article,
Barrington Moore's SOCIAL ORIGINS OF DICTATORSHIP AND DEMOCRACY is a great
source of analysis in the Charles Beard/Karl Marx tradition. One thing that
was important in the problems between the N. and the S. was the issue of
f
I would like to concur with Maggie on her excellent post
on the relation between the abolition of slavery and the
developing sectional economic interests in the US. Just
as a minor contribution to this debate, I would like to
recommend a theoretical article by Evsey Domar on this
issue which supp
Doug Henwood wrote,
>Greenspan & Co. are reportedly very
>worried about the Asian crisis and are convinced that the U.S. economy is
>the only thing keeping the world economy from going down a rathole.
Aside, sotto voce: "Having, of course, first bred the rats who dug the hole
down which the U.S.
Business Week: 9/29/97, pp. 110-111
'WORKING CAPITAL':
LABOR'S NEW
WEAPON?
It wants to use pension
funds to reshape
corporate policies
When 4,200 members of the United
Steelworkers went on strike at
Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Co. last year, they
didn't just walk
At 12:37 PM 9/23/97 -0700, Maggie Coleman wrote:
> While I applaud the sentiments of this piece, I really think
>> slavery in the USA was abolished for much more pragmatic reasons. If one
>> reads the political economists writing in the USA at the time (NOT the
>> European economists writing ab
On Tue, 23 Sep 1997, James Devine wrote:
> But seriously folks, I don't think the UN is really "a developing world
> government." Rather, I would see the UN as one part of a developing world
> government, perhaps a minor part. The other parts are: the United States,
> now the only military superp
Over 5,000 nursing aides held a demonstration in cold, rainy weather at the
National Assembly in Quebec City on September 20 to protest the anti-social
measures being imposed in the health care field. As a consequence of these
measures, they pointed out, the nursing aide occupation is being
elimi
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In a message dated 97-09-19 01:20:51 EDT, Ric
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