The fact that we have had some success in broadening our economic perspective to- with NAFTA and the GATT agreement and selling more of our products that we used to couldn't sell.

source: 
COCA
Entry: 
1032
Example: 
We have had some success in broadening our economic perspective to- with NAFTA and the GATT agreement and selling more of our products that we used to couldn't sell.
Modal 1: 
used to
Modal 2: 
couldn't
Gender: 
Male
Race/Ethnicity: 
White
Age: 
47
Level of Education: 
Graduate school (Law degree)
Home Community, Town, or State: 
AR (Hope)
Location Collected: 
Radio
Year: 
1993
Relation to Addressee: 
elected official to constituency
Medium: 
Spoken
Sentence Structure: 
1.6
Status: 
Naturalistic
Notes: 
Source: NPR All Things Considered. Full Context: id not run to do easy things. I mean, the easy things have been done by the time I showed up here, by and large. And I think, frankly, the fact that we- we passed that economic plan, and reversed Reaganomics, if you will, trickle down economics, and have continued to bring the deficit down with interest rates down, investment up, and jobs up. The fact that we have had some success in broadening our economic perspective to- with NAFTA and the GATT agreement and selling more of our products that we used to couldn't sell. The fact that we're aggressively seeking to help these states and communities that have been hurt by defense cutbacks to rebuild the economy. That we're going to have a big job training initiative next year to help people who are dislocated. That we're going to pass this crime bill and put 100,000 police officers on the street. Those things, I think, will help to build, inch by inch, foot by foot, the credibility of the national government in ways