As the first successful challenge of a wealthy nation's agricultural subsidies, the cotton case could help energize global trade talks, which have been stalled for more than a year over agriculture.
The Knicks, revived by their president, Isiah Thomas, and energized by trades for Stephon Marbury and Jamal Crawford, are contenders for the Atlantic Division title.
It is hard to energize a pro-trade lobby to counter the political clout of vocal protectionist interest groups, especially in an election year.
Three weeks ago, Ujiri, the Denver Nuggets' vice president for basketball operations, and the team president Josh Kroenke engineered a blockbuster trade that energized the Knicks and redefined the Nuggets.
On the horizon they can see the outlines of a new world, one in which Syria's inefficient and inward-looking producers will have to compete in a newly energized Middle East free of trade barriers.
WASHINGTON -- President Obama may find a rare opening for possible bipartisan cooperation, with a Republican House helping to re-energize American efforts to reduce trade barriers.
Cinergy's trading expertise will energize Duke's once-troubled unregulated power production unit," says Conrad.
Lawmakers are split almost evenly on the wisdom of expanding trade, and unions have energized their members to oppose many trade agreements.
That has energized the once-insular Christian book trade, while forcing it to adapt to a wider, and perhaps less knowledgeable, audience.
Like the legitimate businessmen energized by the loosening of North American trade, the traffickers have sought new economies of scale, taken advantage of the freer movement of Mexican trucking into the United States and even shifted some production closer to consumers.
