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In the 1990's, a time of corporate capital's global ascendancy, the mildest restraints on its prerogatives have been peremptorily rejected. Automatically, under this designation, measures to protect national cultural industries, for example, have been ruled unacceptable infringements of free trade.

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Herbert Schiller
Age: 80 †
Born: 1919
Born: November 5
Died: 2000
Died: January 29
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New York City
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Herbert I. Schiller
Herbert Irving Schiller
H.I. Schiller
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