At a recent discussion about illegal drugs at the James A.Baker Institute for Public Policy at Rice University, DEA intelligence chief for the Houston sector,Gary Hale, said one sign of progress is that the cartels are seeking other sources of income, with drugs comprising only about "What does that mean?

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It was only after U.S. Secretary of the Treasury James A. Baker III strongarmed the finance ministers of Germany, France, Great Britain, and Japan into a hotel room in New York and produced the Plaza Accord on September 22, 1985, launching an unprecedented global market intervention to bring down the overvalued U.S. dollar, that protectionist pressures began to subside.

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As a correspondent following Secretary of State James A. Baker, Mossberg found himself virtually living on airplanes.

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In 1991, Secretary of State James A. Baker III addressed Mongolia's first legislature chosen in multi-party elections, applauding the rise of democracy and promising millions of dollars in aid.

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