Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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April 7, 1988:After a little more than a week of mediated negotiations between the union and Harvard, the NLRB sets May 17 as the date for a union election. Under the agreement, 41 employees--whose eligibility in the election was contested--have their ballots set aside, to be used only if necessary...
...there a consensus? No. Despite agreement that Washington must do something, the question of what ignites differences that burn beneath mere partisanship to issues of deep ideology. For example, should the Government be encouraging women to work and turn their children over to someone else's care? Thus child care is potentially one of the hottest topics of the presidential $ and congressional campaigns. Unlike debates over the budget or trade policy, this one hits millions of voters directly where they live. "The issue of child care is politically ripe," says Secretary of Labor Ann McLaughlin, who has almost single-handedly...
Secretary of State George P. Shultz, winding up two days of talks with Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze, told reporters; "We have reached a completely satisfactory agreement on all of those issues...
...Occasionally, they'll have an argument," Shultz said of the technicians who will carry out the agreement to destroy 683 Soviet missiles and 364 U.S. missiles with a range of 315 to 3,125 miles. "That's life...
...pact on intermediate-range missiles is unprecedented in its provisions for on-site inspection to guard against infractions. It also is the first U.S.-Soviet agreement to eliminate an entire category of nuclear weapons...