Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decision overturned a lower-court victory by the Murphy Door Bed Co. of Amityville, N.Y. The firm claimed that a former Murphy distributor had illegally called his product the "original" Murphy bed. The appeals court ordered the distributor to pay damages for competing unfairly and violating an agreement to stop using the word original. But the judges held that the term Murphy bed can be used by any manufacturer...
...President and his advisers say they are annoyed because only a month earlier, Kohl won a grudging U.S. agreement to put off a decision on Lance modernization until after the West German elections in 1990. But the Chancellor's popularity at home has sagged recently, and his center-right coalition is threatened by discontent over widely criticized tax and health reforms. In an almost desperate attempt to regain ground, he has adopted the negotiate-now attitude of the Social Democratic opposition and of his coalition partner, Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher. When Kohl sent two ministers to Washington to explain...
...Brussels May 29-30. The "early" negotiations the West Germans want could be put off until next year or even later; Bonn might also agree to some of Nunn's conditions, notably that any reductions negotiated would not take effect until separate talks under way in Vienna yield an agreement eliminating or at least lessening the Warsaw Pact's superior numbers in conventional troops and weapons. The West Germans have begun talking of the hoariest of all dodges: appoint a NATO committee to study what line to take toward short-range missile negotiations...
Panama, however, is a victim of the old-style, territorialist tendencies of U.S. imperialism. After Jimmy Carter signed an agreement scheduling the return of the Panama Canal to Panama in the year 2000, North Americans suddenly discovered a real stake in good relations with this tiny country...
...resolved. One of the thorniest was on the way to being settled last week, however, when President Bush approved a controversial deal with Tokyo for production of the new FSX jet fighter once Japan promised to safeguard American jobs and technology. But Congress may still reject the agreement...