Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nukes is a cute expression for nuclear reactors, which leave nuclear waste. The best scientific minds are not yet in agreement as to a reasonable and economic method of disposition of nuke waste materials. Until this is resolved for future generations, nukes are for kooks...
October 1978. Hail to the Chief booms out over the assembled dignitaries in the East Room of the White House. The President strides in, smiling broadly. He announces yet another Middle East peace agreement worked out by his ubiquitous Secretary of State, this one between Israel and Jordan. It is the third in a sequence that began a year and a half ago with an Israeli-Egyptian treaty. While he has the rapt attention of his audience, the President reveals that the SALT II agreement signed twelve months earlier has worked so well that the Soviet leadership wants to move...
...their privileges will be narrowed considerably by a bill newly signed by President Carter. It brings U.S. law into line with a 1961 international agreement on diplomatic immunity that has been adopted by most nations. The new law will grant total immunity only to ambassadors, attachés and other high-ranking embassy officials and their families -about half the diplomatic community in the U.S. But they will be required to carry liability insurance, so plaintiffs can at least sue insurance companies, and the companies can no longer use their clients' immunity to avoid payment of claims. Other embassy...
After heavy prompting in the form of a judicial agreement signed in 1974, New York grudgingly began providing bilingual education for Spanish-speaking youngsters. By the New York City board of education's most recent estimate, there were only 2,333 Hispanics among the city's 48,813 teachers...
...will be permitted to use a new highway that will cross Israel and link the Sinai to Jordan. Finally, there is the question of where the treaty will be signed. Israel will opt for Jerusalem, Egypt for either Mount Sinai (Sadat's sentimental favorite) or Cairo. Failing agreement-and judging from obvious precedent-the site could turn out to be Washington...