Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attorney for the company said if an agreement were not reached soon, the current store would have to shut down within two years. The company would then sell the land to another developer, who might not be as restrained and responsible as Stop & Shop, he said...
...long after, agreement between Gorbachev and Jakes was reached on the plan for a Politburo purge. But October came and went with nothing done. In mid-November, hard-line ideology chief Jan Fojtik traveled on short notice to Moscow, where he met with Georgi Smirnov, chief of the Moscow Institute of Marxism-Leninism. Smirnov said that a document condemning the 1968 invasion had been approved by the Soviet Politburo, and he warned that with the Malta summit approaching, the document would soon be published...
...offerings that had been put forward elsewhere, but there were also some choicer cuts. The President reiterated his proposal that the two nations wrap up the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks in Geneva before the next summit -- which he suggested be held in Washington in June -- and sign an agreement to cut conventional forces in Europe by the end of 1990. Bush offered to end U.S. production of binary chemical weapons when other nations capable of producing chemical killers enter into an international convention banning them. That represents a change from the Administration's position that it would continue to produce...
...Soviet trade, as soon as the Supreme Soviet concludes legislation permitting free emigration. For the interim, he proposed that the two nations negotiate a new trade treaty in time for the June summit. He also vowed to support observer status for the Soviet Union at the GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) talks, a move long sought by the Soviets to help integrate the U.S.S.R. into the world economic system...
...Times have changed. Today responsibility for the world is borne by all countries, great and small. There are aspects of the Yalta agreement that must remain intact. It is difficult to look into the future, but I do think Malta is a meeting of historic significance...