Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bestow on his hosts, Humphrey deplaned first at Geneva. From Kennedy Round negotiators he heard glum reports that the talks had reached an impasse over Washington's reluctance to lower tariffs on imported chemicals and European resistance to lowering duties on American farm products. Humphrey warned that if agreement was not reached by the deadline at month's end, the U.S. Congress-now in an increasingly protectionist mood-was not likely to renew the 1962 Trade Act that authorized the five-year tariff negotiations. Warned Humphrey: "It's now or never...
...guards, spend most of their time on just such mundane assignments. They not only patrol plants for corporations but also undertake security checks or theft investigations inside the gates. Other agents, in a longtime arrangement with the Jewelers' Security Alliance, investigate jewel thefts and losses; under an agreement with Eastern race tracks, the Pinks guard thoroughbreds and chase away bookies and purse snatchers. Uniformed Pinkerton men stand watch at annual corporate meetings, and have been known to haul obstreperous stockholders out bodily on orders from the chair. The company turns down divorce cases, but its plainclothesmen will track missing...
...owners are claiming that the option agreement was not valid because its terms were altered at the last moment and the owners were not informed of the changes...
...jury trial had been requested by the owners of an apartment building on the edge of the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library. Harvard went to court late last year to compel the owners to sell to the University under a ten-year old option agreement...
Under the original option agreement, signed in 1956, the University received the right to buy the apartment any time during a ten-year period for $250,000 plus small additional amounts for improvements made on the building...