Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...commission urges abolishing the NRC and replacing it with a single Director of Nuclear Regulation to be appointed by the President. Explained a Kemeny commission member: ''We felt that when you have a collegial body, you delay decision-making while searching for the lowest common denominator of agreement.'' A single director, on the other hand, ''can't pass the buck in an emergency...
...Dayan affair was why he remained in the Begin government as long as he did. Dayan had made no secret of the fact that he disagreed with Begin's hard-line policy in dealing with the Palestinians. He genuinely want ed to reach some kind of agreement with the Arabs of the West Bank and Gaza over their future relations with Israel (see box); Begin seemed content to let the status quo drift on forever. Because of this disagreement, Dayan refused to head the Israeli delegation in the autonomy talks. In he was further iso lated from the negotiations...
...disruptions, the Toronto-based Thomson Organization, owner of the newspapers, suspended publication last Nov. 30. Thomson executives felt they could force the anarchic print unions into line within several months, at the outside, but they underestimated the complexity of the task and the resiliency of their adversaries. A final agreement was not reached until last week, just hours before the deadline Times Newspapers Ltd. Managing Director Marmaduke Hussey had implicitly set for closing the papers for good...
Both Bok and Wolfman agree that as the 1985 renewal date for the 1977 agreement draws closer, the Committee will have to sit down and, in Bok's words, "figure out what's going on." Bok explains that the Committee originally designed to draft the 1977 agreement, is not expected "to meet regularly with a regular agenda. We're not anxious to proliferate bureaucracies," he adds. If the Joint Policy Committee "continues to exist" on paper, it is ready to be called to the board room if and when the occasion arises. "You can never tell when something will call...
...Wolfman, administrative dean of Radcliffe and nominal secretary to the Committee says, "There haven't been any issues that the Presidents couldn't solve." Horner is less modest about this. "If President Bok and I are doing our various administratvie jobs well," she says, "a sign of a successful agreement is that the Joint Policy Committee...