Word: accords
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fujitsu: "The fact is that Control Data lost in a fight with Cray, but that may not be the way the Americans will look at it." The U.S. has long complained about the Japanese government's failure to buy U.S.-made supercomputers. The two countries signed a 1987 accord in which Tokyo agreed to eliminate discrimination against U.S. supercomputer makers in the purchasing procedures of Japanese government agencies and universities. But since then, Tokyo has failed to buy a single U.S. supercomputer...
Both men have good reason to stay the course. Two weeks before the encounter, representatives of the government and Solidarity had signed an accord that paved the way for the legalization of the previously outlawed trade union and moved the country one step closer to what may become Eastern Europe's first multiparty system. Last week Solidarity backed a preliminary slate of twelve candidates, including a film idol, a schoolteacher and a former political prisoner, to run in the parliamentary elections scheduled for June. If successful, Poland's experiment could set an example to be followed by other reform-minded...
...asteroid, called 1989FC in accord with the official numbering system of the International Astronomical Union, was first detected by Henry Holt, an adjunct professor of geology at Northern Arizona University. That was in late March, after it was already moving safely away from earth. Holt spotted the speeding intruder in photographs taken through an 18-in. telescope at the Palomar Observatory in Southern California, during a systematic search for asteroids passing close by, which scientists call earth grazers. Holt figures that 1989FC may be in Hermes' league, but other astronomers dispute the claim, saying the new asteroid may be only...
Commission members monitoring the border situation formally declared SWAPO's presence in Namibia a violation of the peace accord and instructed the rebels to return to Angola. The U.N. belatedly began deploying, but at week's end only a handful of rebels had surrendered, apparently because assembly points were also manned by Namibian security forces. Some chose instead to make their own way over the border...
...have a kind of party policy in place that is in accord with College policy," he says. "Any kind of party in Kirkland House is going to follow the guidelines of the house," he says...