Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...curious that there's such universal agreement on the poor quality of many of today's TV shows [March 12], yet these very same programs are the ones that garner the highest ratings? Someone must be watching...
...their energy-consuming comforts has yet to be demonstrated. On the other hand, if the leaders of Egypt and Israel, with Jimmy Carter's help, can try to put all those years of warfare behind them, perhaps the country, with the President's help, can reach agreement on how to overcome a crippling dependency on foreign fuel...
...five-year commitment made in 1975, the U.S. has pledged to provide Israel with oil for 15 years if the Israelis on their own should be unable to acquire sufficient supplies, either from Egypt or on the world market. Late last week the Administration concluded a bilateral memorandum of agreement with Israel under which the U.S. promises to "consult" with Israel-that is, to give it some sort of support-if Egypt should violate the terms of the peace treaty, and to use its veto if the U.N. Security Council should try to take action against the treaty...
...himself the realities of congressional manipulation and started to make some headway on the Hill, it could be that after more than two years of training he is learning the ropes of world power. Nobody knows for sure the delicate mix of events and emotions that produced the peace agreement. But having the carrier Constellation on its way toward the Arabian Sea, hurrying weapons and technicians to North Yemen and backing up his words of resolve with suggestions of further armed American presence surely helped more than those sermons on human rights...
...When agreement came at the last edges of hope, the President let the world know with an announcement so low-keyed that it was almost not an announcement The deed shouted its own message without White House help or hype...