Word: accordant
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...rice farmers, threaten textile workers in Europe and the U.S., and create problems for factory workers at inefficient plants worldwide. Such losses should, in theory, be offset by new employment in export-related industries, where wages are usually higher than average -- 17% higher in the U.S, for example. An accord should also lower prices for consumers, who ultimately pay the hidden costs of protectionism. A U.S. family of four pays as much as $420 a year more for clothes than necessary, thanks to high U.S. textile barriers...
...statistics were reminiscent of the darkest days of intifadeh: about 90 Palestinians and three Israelis injured and a Palestinian and two Israelis killed in the worst violence in the Israeli-occupied territories since Israel and the P.L.O. signed their historic peace accord in Washington in September...
Israeli soldiers wounded 37 Palestinian protesters who were rioting in the Gaza Strip over the killing by Israelis of a leader of the militant Muslim group Hamas. The unrest was the most serious since the signing of the peace accord in Washington in September. On Friday Israeli soldiers killed another militant Palestinian leader. Concerned about security arrangements, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin warned that Israel may not be able to withdraw its troops from Gaza and the West Bank town of Jericho before the Dec. 13 deadline agreed to in September...
...subsidy accord is crucial to the rescue operation, for private companies will not cut back unless their state-owned competitors are brought to heel. Europe's private steelmakers have warily agreed -- in principle only -- to a $1.1 billion shutdown scheme that the E.C. and member states plan to sweeten with $3.1 billion more for unemployment benefits and retraining. After last week's fiasco, officials pleaded for more flexibility from Rome. But either way, the lesson is clear: the longer the delay, the more painful the cure...
Meeting at a secret location in Cairo, Palestinian and Israeli negotiators said they were confident that by their deadline, three weeks from now, they will reach an accord on the details of limited Palestinian self-rule in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank town of Jericho. Israel has agreed to restrict the presence of its troops to Jewish settlements, a long-standing Palestinian demand...