Regionwide energy policy faces opposition in Mexico
President Bush and Mexican President Fox discuss a regional energy plan from Panama to Canada to ease cross border power shortages. Mexico resists privatization citing sovereignty while urging a win win policy that benefits all and avoids using developing nations as power sites. California blackouts underscore the urgency.
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Mexico
United States
Panama
Canada
Bush
Vicente Fox
Electricity Commission
Congress
Institutional Revolutionary Party
Fox
Jorge Castaneda
Ernesto Zedillo
California
Baja California
San Diego
U.S
Mexico City
New FCC chief backs less government control of communications
Washington reports that Michael Powell, the new FCC chairman, favors deregulation to spur competition and faster services such as high speed Internet. Supporters say market forces will replace red tape while critics warn prices may rise and consumer choices could shrink.
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Washington
Billy Tauzin
R-La
House Commerce Committee
Gene Kimmelman
Consumers Union
Federal Communications Commission
FCC
Scott Clelarid
Commission
Michael Powell
Edward O. Fritts
Sweatshop strike hits Chentex plant in Nicaragua
In Tipitapa Nicaragua Johana Reyes and 399 other workers faced mass firings after a four day strike demanding better conditions at Chentex a Taiwan owned firm sewing jeans for the U S military The plant fired about 20 percent of its work force August 1999 underscoring global tensions over labor standards and foreign factory power involved parties include Chentex Nien Hsing Campaign for Labor Rights U S Army and Air Force Exchange Service GAO and Kohl s Stores with activists accusing and defending the plant
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Tipitapa
Nicaragua
U.S
Johana Auxiliadora Reyes
Reyes
Chentex
Wisconsin
United States
Taiwan
Nien Hsing Business Consortium
Los Angeles
Daisy Pitkin
Campaign For Labor Rights
Washington, D.C
Kohl's
Milwaukee
Eric Hilliard
Army and
Air Force Exchange Service
General Accounting Office
Congress
GAO
Johana Reyes
Managua
Investors betting on small stocks in early 2000s markets
Through the first quarter investors see two trends: small and mid-size stocks outperform blue chips, and value stocks beat growth as tech woes persist. Overall mutual funds suffer losses, with Morningstar listing only 10 gains in 28 fund categories. The NASDAQ falls 5 percent. S&P 500 down 1.4 percent for the year.
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Los Angeles
U.S
Federal Reserve
Morningstar Inc
Nortel Networks
Standard & Poor
Riot at Daewoo plant as workers clash with police
About 300 Daewoo workers and families clash with riot police near the Bupyong assembly lines to protest 1751 layoffs. One worker is injured. union leaders face arrest warrants. GM talks paused amid the chaos and bankruptcy fallout.
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South Korea
Daewoo Motor Union
Bupyong
Seoul
Daewoo Motor Co
Daewoo
Yonhap
Incheon
Daewoo Motor
General Motors
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