Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard does not have to encourage ROTC in order for students to take advantage of its programs. If Harvard were to support ROTC, it would violate an anti-discrimination agreement promised to all students...
...American expert in earthquake reconstruction has worked out an agreement to rebuild Leninakan, one of the Soviet Armenian cities leveled by a quake last December...
...fair, there was little of the shamelessly self-congratulatory rhetoric that normally consecrates such empty agreements. The President called the budget pact a "first, manageable step" taken "in a constructive, bipartisan spirit." The Democrats reflected mild embarrassment over the ease with which they had capitulated to Bush's no-new-taxes pledge, something close to the Administration's defense-spending target and budget chief Richard Darman's strategy of forcing Congress to make the fiscally necessary but unpopular cuts in domestic programs. "This is not a heroic agreement," said House Speaker Jim Wright, putting it mildly. And Senate Majority Leader...
...budgetary red ink at close to $130 billion. But numbers cannot convey the political timidity of the President and Congress in stubbornly holding the line against a tax hike, protecting most entitlements and refusing to make more than token trims in domestic and defense outlays. The Rose Garden agreement, in short, has spawned a Sixteen Tons budget that, to paraphrase the 1950s Tennessee Ernie Ford hit, will just leave the Government "another year older and deeper in debt...
...deal collapsed as if it had been hit by wind shear. Just five days after announcing his $464 million takeover of strikebound and bankrupt Eastern Air Lines, former Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth abruptly delivered a very different message last week. Said he: "Our agreement with Texas Air is terminated, it's finished, it's over...