Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...equivalent of about $13 billion a year that might otherwise go to internal investment or the purchase of imports is being siphoned off to service Mexico's nearly $100 billion debt. Under quiet prodding from Washington, the Mexican government and a consortium of international banks have been negotiating an agreement to ease the terms of repayment. Next in line for debt relief are three other democracies whose future growth could be in jeopardy: Venezuela, the Philippines and Costa Rica...
...initiative is a promising sign of new thinking. Until 1987 the Soviet Union not only refused to let U.S. inspectors check compliance on the spot, calling it espionage, but also denied that the U.S.S.R. maintained any stocks of chemical weapons. Under the influence of glasnost, Moscow last week announced agreement in principle to on-site "surprise" inspections of facilities. The arrangement defines what sorts of installations would be involved and under what conditions an inspection could be demanded...
...students. "And what better example of this could there be than one simple fact: Karl Marx University has dropped Das Kapital from its required reading list." All over the hall George Bush, a proud product of U.S capitalism, saw the young Hungarians break into wide smiles and nod in agreement...
...last year moved from New Jersey to California, asked the institute to ship their frozen embryo to a comparable facility at Los Angeles' Good Samaritan Hospital, where Dr. Richard Marrs was prepared to supervise its implantation. Much to the couple's surprise, Jones refused, arguing that the consent agreement signed by the Yorks gave them no rights to the embryo outside his institute's jurisdiction. In effect, Jones contended, the Yorks have only four choices: they could have their embryo implanted at the institute, donate it to another couple, offer it for experimentation or destroy...
...Agreement on the principle that women have a right to abortion at least under some circumstances may be wide spread, but the trimester system established in Roe to enforce the legality of abortion is too problematic to endure. As Chief Justice Rehnquist noted, "We have not refrained from reconsideration of a prior construction of the Constitution that has proved `unsound in principle and unworkable in practice.' We think the Roe trimester framework falls into that category...