Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...international agreement to lower tariffs signed in Geneva last week, by 21 industrialized non-Communist countries represents an attempt to stimulate world trade although the effectiveness of the pact remains uncertain, trade experts said yesterday...
...agreement would require a 31 per cent reduction of tariffs among the signatories, who control 90 per cent of world trade...
Even as Administration spokesmen took to the hustings, there was a sense that the more than six years of negotiations on the accord might finally be drawing to a close. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance was awaiting a Soviet reply to U.S. proposals on the last issues blocking agreement...
...voice, the Premier declared that "they played the Hatikva [the Israeli national anthem] in Cairo." Shouted right-wing Backbencher Geula Cohen: "They will play it in Amman [Jordan] as well, if you give them Jerusalem!" But the members of parliament were generally appreciative until Begin mentioned the only new agreement to come from the trip: Sadat had agreed that the Israelis could keep a laundry at Kibbutz Neot-Sinai, a mile east of El Arish, until the final withdrawal from the peninsula in early 1983. That news brought a chorus of catcalls from hecklers: "What about the laundry? Is that...
Union members must ratify the agreement in a process that takes four to six weeks. "I'm sure that they'll be satisfied with this agreement," Fitzsimmons said...