Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although Congress and the White House reached general agreement on most elements of the bill, they were at loggerheads over the plant-closing notification -- an extraneous issue. The Democrats embraced the provision as an important gesture of support for American workers. To the Administration it became a symbol of unwarranted Government interference in business...
...case of semiconductors, Government action may have been too timid and tardy. In 1986 U.S. manufacturers complained that the Japanese were unfairly "dumping" computer memory chips -- exporting them at prices lower than production costs. As a result, Japan signed an agreement to stop the practice and open its market to American semiconductors. Last year the U.S. charged that Japan had not lived up to the agreement, and imposed higher tariffs against several of its products, including power tools and laptop computers. But by that time the Japanese had already come to dominate the American market for memory chips. U.S. manufacturers...
Negotiations at Nowa Huta had seemed near agreement at midweek, when factory managers broke off talks. Next day the managers and the leaders of the official union met in an apparent effort to divide the strikers. As tension mounted, authorities threatened to fire strikers and hinted that riot police might break up the protest. Several dozen Solidarity activists and sympathizers were detained, including Jacek Kuron, a senior Solidarity adviser. On Saturday, the government announced an accord with the trade union, but the strike continued...
...meeting had sent the price of West Texas intermediate, the benchmark U.S. crude, rising more than $3.50 per bbl. during the previous two months, to a peak of almost $19 before the gathering. But after conferring for six days last week, the ministers were still struggling to forge an agreement that would prop up prices by throttling back the world's oil output...
...four decisions he had to decide and in his pre-empting an issue for the jury, Garrity concluded that Harvard's treatment of Walters was not motivated by gender discrimination. The jury, after two days of deliberation, ruled that the University's conduct violated a contractual agreement to treat men and women equally...