Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bear obviously disagrees. At a meeting with U.S. businessmen in Moscow, a pleased Mikhail Gorbachev said the agreement and the general relaxation of international tensions offer a "window of hope." He added, "The possibilities of finding solutions to the complicated issues engendered in the years of the cold war have become more apparent." President Reagan also applauded the agreement, and praised the "valiant struggle of the Afghan people to rid their country of foreign occupation." The two leaders will meet in Moscow on May 29, two weeks after the Soviet troop pullout is scheduled to begin, to discuss...
...outside the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (among them: Mexico, Egypt, Malaysia and China) have agreed to meet formally with the struggling cartel. This expanded group of oil exporters, which controls 57% of production outside the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, could try to boost prices by fashioning an agreement to limit output. While such a pact might fall apart if producers cheat on quotas, as they have so many times in the past, word of the proposed meetings, which are scheduled to begin April 23, sparked a rally in the oil markets. The price of West Texas Intermediate crude...
Senate Majority Leader Robert C. Byrd (D-W.Va.) said the Senate would not rush to ratify the agreement, though...
...over the need for larger numbers of minority faculty. Considerable consternation and disagreement exists over how to remedy this problem. Consequently, demonstrating the existence of the problem is less important at this time than understanding it, and proposing useful solutions. The MSA report usefully reminds all of us that agreement about creative solutions, not a renewed demonstration of the problem, is called for at this time. For this reason I applaud what they have done and hope for additional constructive reminders in the future...
Enjoining argument over the Thernstrom incident would have implied acceptance of the agreement on which all discussion depends: that the best case should prevail. That would matter not just for Thernstrom, this time. It would establish a precedent by which to judge other professors, other times. And so Kilson had as little to say as his colleagues...