Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...next challenge is SALT. Carter is clearly committed to an arms treaty, but there is the very real question of whether he can get it both signed and ratified. First, he must continue cracking heads within his own foreign policy team to get an agreement on the final set of tradeoffs to be offered Moscow. Second, he must convince the Soviets that unless they make some concessions, SALT II could fall victim to what may well be a wide-open 1980 presidential campaign...
...What he wants is substantially what we've been doing for the last few years, Armistead said. "He just wants to make it into some sort of agreement," he added...
...agency insuring human rights must have a legal as well as an ideological basis expressed in a political agreement suited to a particular country's history and stage of economic development, he said...
First came an announcement by the U.S. Defense Department that upwards of $7 billion in military sales contracts with Iran had been canceled by mutual agreement as a result of the continuing strife in the country and spreading Iranian hostility to U.S. weapons sales. The disclosure, which affects some of the nation's largest defense suppliers, including General Dynamics, McDonnell Douglas, Boeing, Litton Industries and Textron's Bell Helicopter division, was shock enough. But even as businessmen wondered if additional deals were about to collapse, Energy Secretary James Schlesinger brought up an even gloomier subject: the increasing chances...
...already invested about $80 million, while RCA has spent more than $50 million-both companies have moved with caution. Indeed, RCA announced that it would go ahead with its system only after Magnavox began test-marketing in December. Magnavox, for its part, took the plunge because it had an agreement with MCA that it would launch videodiscs no later than 1978. Both players will be nationally available in 1980 when, despite Magnavox's test launches this year, RCA's greater number of dealers and lower price tag may give that company a marketing edge...