Word: agreement
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...Zhao's remarks to the students finally precipitated his fall, they were apparently not the only reason. In his talk with Gorbachev, telecast live to millions of Chinese on Tuesday, Zhao told of a secret party agreement specifying that Deng, though semiretired, was responsible for major party decisions. The document, crafted in 1987, was a compromise that paved the way for the retirement of a clutch of old party conservatives. That disclosure got Zhao in trouble less because it was made to the representative of an old enemy nation than because it signaled to the viewing audience that resentment...
...clear that there had been a flurry of proposals and counterproposals between Wright's representatives and the ethics panel on Wednesday. Those efforts fell short of agreement, but some Wright allies still held out hope that a negotiated settlement could be achieved...
...ticklish task is made even tougher by the failure of the Bush Administration and Congress to rein in a runaway budget deficit that helps keep interest rates high. White House and congressional leaders merely ducked the issue last month in a sleight-of-hand agreement that cut the 1990 deficit to about $100 billion to comply with the Gramm-Rudman law. But a recession could make a mockery of that rosy projection by swelling the red ink to as much as $175 billion. "Using monetary policy to slow the economy is a poor second-best solution," says David Rolley...
Because of a technical glitch, only 150,000 copies of the first few issues rolled off the presses, but the projected circulation is 500,000. Under the agreement reached during the round-table talks between union and government leaders last month, the paper, rechristened Gazeta Codzienna (Daily Gazette), will continue to be published after the election. While the editors have announced their intention to "present views and opinions of the whole independent society," the Gazeta will no doubt always have a favorite subject. The paper's motto: "There is no freedom without Solidarity...
This month Spence announced an agreement that would ensure that FAS will eventually own the site. But designation of the land is just one part of a huge task facing the University--where to house its burgeoning supply of books and scholars...