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A documentary recognizing members of the building trades who helped in the rescue, recovery, and clean up efforts at the World Trade Center, called Ground Zero, in New York City, following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Includes interviews of workers at Ground Zero: Greg Nolan, crane operator; Rick Ostrander, dockbuilder; Hugh Smith, carpenter; Chris Pillai, iron worker; Will Quinlen, iron work; Father Brian Jordan OFM, priest who ministered...

Reveals surprising and often shocking truths about what we eat, how it's produced, and who we have become as a nation. Includes celebrity PSA's, deleted scenes, and Nightline segment.

The purpose of this book is to provide an overview of the key issues for negotiation at the Qatar Ministerial meeting and well beyond. Resolving these issues is a precondition for the launching of a new round of multilateral trade negotiations -- something considered critical by many WTO member governments in order to ensure a stable multilateral trading system that fully represents the interests of developing countries. [publisher].

Presents a comprehensive reference manual that describes free trade and the history of the North American Free Trade Agreement, and discusses the loss of American jobs to Mexico, and the economical and political fallout as a result of the agreement.

Cohen, Blecker, and Whitney (professors of international relations and economics at American U.) see the formation of U.S. trade policy is seen as a combination of competing forces of political, economic, and legal factors. They attempt to show how trade policymaking involves reconciling a range of economic goal and political necessities. After reviewing the history of trade policymaking in the United States, they separately examine the three factors...

In the mid-1940s, once the full impact of World War II was assessed, the world witnessed major legal developments in both modern trade and human rights. Since then, volumes have been written about modern trade law, and human rights law has seen an equal amount of attention. While these topics constitute two of the most active spheres in international law, follow similar intellectual trajectories, and often feature the same key actors and arenas, neither...

Examines the negotiations of the World Trade Organization, discusses dysfunction within the organization, and theorizes how it will be affected by a global recession.

"Le Deal is a business adventure story involving raw entrepreneurship and high-level politics. It is the true story of Byrne Murphy, a businessman who abruptly moves to Paris with his wife and baby daughter in a quest to reignite his career and his fortunes. He quickly finds himself up against strange and powerful forces for which he is ill prepared." "He and his company will engage in a fierce mano a mano struggle with the French prime minister...