Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...agreement reached by the guerrillas impressed U.S. and Pakistani observers, but the unity may prove fleeting. A rival group of mujahedin based in Iran opposed the council's choices. Mojaddedi nonetheless called on other countries to recognize the interim rebel government, which he predicted would be functioning inside Afghanistan within a month, "God willing...
Harvard, then, does not appear to be fulfilling the terms of its 1977 agreement with Radcliffe College, described in the Handbook for Students as "to insure that women undergraduates enjoy the same opportunities here as men." Women have indeed been regulated to the status of second-class citizens...
...addition, The Satanic Verses publisher Viking Penguin has said that it would arrange not to publish a paperback version of the book if such a move would end the controversy and death threats that have arisen. We would strongly object to this type of agreement, which would jeopardize the future of Rushdie's novel. The human mind must not be held hostage...
Even that, however, marks some progress: at times last week it seemed as if the trial would never start at all. It had already been delayed for five months beyond its first tentative date by the endless dispute about secret documents. Finally an agreement permitted the selection of jurors. Then, just as the last jurors were being chosen, the Justice Department moved in with yet another objection...
...agreement has its peculiarities. Gesell pointed out that it might push the prosecution into falsely implying that one of its witnesses lied. That could be the price of keeping secret a document proving that the witness had told the truth. "Is that what you're suggesting?" the judge asked a Justice Department attorney. The answer, in effect: well...