Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decline of party loyalty and the new brittleness that resists compromises make the tasks of leadership more difficult. It is a time that offers no obvious set of answers to problems of great technical complexity. Carter, the engineer, has addressed energy, inflation, unemployment, the Middle East, the SALT II agreement and government reorganization, treating each one methodically and with an almost unheard-of degree of presidential attention to detail. He has also been willing to try bold new approaches, like the Camp David summit. Yet the more he studies, the more it becomes apparent not only that each problem...
Though the M.F.N. issue will not be fully resolved during Teng's visit, a U.S.Chinese agreement on cooperation in science and technology was expected to be signed by Teng and Carter at a midweek ceremony at the White House. The agreement provides for an exchange of scientists and agriculture specialists. Chinese and American officials are also working on an agreement that would establish U.S. consulates in cities like Shanghai, Chinese missions in Los Angeles and elsewhere...
...Actually, this should be considered not SALT II but the fourth such agreement. The first such agreement was concluded in 1963, the second in 1972, the third in 1974. We have constantly said not that we are opposed to such agreements, but that they are of no use, that they are not of much use. In 1963 when the tripartite partial test-ban treaty was signed between the U.S., Great Britain and the Soviet Union, there was a great discrepancy in nuclear weapons between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. At that time all three countries had in mind...
...language of the agreement is intended to impose some restraints...
MBTA spokesman John K. Leary Jr. said yesterday the MBTA plans to meet with its construction contractor to suggest revisions in their construction plans. Although an agreement will have to be hammered out, Leary said, the agency will suggest that only 30 to 40 per cent of the dirt come up next door to the Dudley...