Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite the basic agreement on wages, the negotiators were unable to settle other critical issues, chiefly whether cost of living increases would be paid annually or semiannually. The truckers had agreed to an annual raise equal to 65% of the rise in the Consumer Price Index. The union wants semi-annual increases, which could add a few percentage points to the overall cost of the contract...
...filtered up through the tall windows. As so often happens in such relaxed circumstances, the three men began to talk history. The last time a treaty between the people of Israel and of Egypt had been signed, Begin related, was 3,000 years ago. King Solomon had made an agreement with a Pharaoh. "I'll bet no one remembers the mediator," said Jimmy Carter...
...agrees that the Palestinian problem has not been resolved, he stresses that the treaty "gives the parties time to accomplish what they might not otherwise have been able to. The whole framework, indeed, could unravel. But the solidifying element of the American commitment will work in favor of an agreement on the Palestinian question." And Princeton's Fouad Ajami, a native of Lebanon, who is very sympathetic to the Palestinians, admits that the treaty surely places the Palestinians in no worse a situation than they were. Says he: "They were not going anywhere before the treaty, and their position...
Barbara B. Levy, a spokesman for the faculty union, said the faculty "is willing to discuss issues which may be clarified, but reworking terms of the agreement--that's out of the question...
Negotiators will resume bargaining today, and both sides said they could reach an agreement over the weekend