Word: agreement
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Another contentious issue involves agriculture. An agreement governing Japanese imports of American beef and citrus products expired, and negotiators from the two countries were deadlocked. The U.S. wants Japan to remove its quotas on beef and citrus imports. With U.S. sirloin costing as much as $20 per lb. in Tokyo, Japan was willing to liberalize quotas but refused to eliminate them. Since the ruling Liberal Democratic Party depends so heavily on farmers' support, the government has not been able to take such a politically risky step...
...peace is the absence of hostilities, then peace prevailed in Nicaragua last week. More accurately, a fragile truce seemed to be holding as representatives of the Sandinistas and the contras gathered in the dusty town of Sapoa to approve the fine points of a cease-fire agreement signed there two weeks ago. But the studied exercise in trust was only half the picture. At the very moment contra field commanders and their Sandinista counterparts were meeting, other rebel leaders were in Washington petitioning for additional aid. The appeal netted a fresh infusion of humanitarian funds and the possibility of renewed...
...Instead his lawyer sends her threatening letters, demanding that she return her half of the estate. To Sarah's mind, it's the Wife he misses and not the Woman. In a world inured to open sexual behavior, Adultery is no longer relevant, so long as the divorce agreement leaves everyone with a fair share...
...There is certain to be a signed agreement on political normalization," Tass quoted Gorbachev as saying while he toured a collective farm near Tashkent after the meeting. "I think both Pakistan and Afghanistan will come to agreement, and that we and the Americans will agree to be guarantors...
...quoted by Pakistan's official news agency, said: "According to unofficial reports, the two superpowers have agreed on the symmetry under which both would be able to provide continued assistance ot their respective allies in Afghanistan." No details of the alleged agreement were given...