Word: accordant
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...past two decades, either on their own accord or at the prompting of the courts, government agencies, schools and private businesses have tried to take affirmative action to provide jobs, educational opportunities and government contracts for minorities. The rub is that these plans sometimes discriminate against whites. While striking down explicit quotas in Bakke, the court has generally backed affirmative action...
...After nearly two years of negotiations, the governments of Britain and China last week completed a draft agreement that will end British rule in Hong Kong and launch a local government that, while being part of Communist China, will be based on private enterprise. Under the terms of the accord, to be initialed in Peking this week, Britain will continue to administer the thriving capitalist enclave until 1997. But in 1988 a 13-year transition period will begin during which a "joint liaison committee," selected by Britain and China, will oversee the transition from British rule to self-government under...
Chinese officials were delighted that the agreement was reached in time for the Oct. 1 National Day celebration commemorating 35 years of Communist rule. The British Parliament and the Chinese National People's Congress must still formally approve the accord, but neither government expects much opposition...
...relief their anticipated departure from the costly stalemate. But the Chadians, mired in a seesaw 19-year-old civil war, were anything but jubilant. Stung by the French failure to consult them before the agreement and skeptical of the mercurial Libyan's change of heart, they viewed the accord as a French betrayal and a Libyan deception...
...that the contract might be rejected by GM's 350,000 union members. The first step in ratification will take place Wednesday, when the agreement is put before a special meeting of the 300-member unit council of local union leaders in St. Louis. If they approve, the accord will then go to the rank and file for their assent. Voting could take up to ten days...