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Word: agreement (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...giant oil company is poorly run. Icahn has repeatedly threatened to stage a hostile takeover, and even tried unsuccessfully to replace Texaco's directors in an old-fashion proxy fight late last spring. Finally, after 14 hours of peace talks, Icahn agreed last week to sign a standstill agreement that prevents him from buying any more stock in the company or trying to wrest control for another seven years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATE RAIDERS: Icahn's $340 Million Payoff | 2/13/1989 | See Source »

Ewing said that the firm has "an agreement ofconfidentiality" with those who take its tests."If a student has gotten a score fraudulently, weconsider that a matter between us and thestudent," he said. "We don't consider ourselves alaw enforcement agency...

Author: By Joshua A. Gerstein, | Title: Freshman Exposes SAT Flaws | 2/7/1989 | See Source »

...such controversy was Harvard's investment in Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts & Company, which took over RJR-Nabisco this fall in a leveraged buyout. Under the conditions of Harvard's agreement with KKR, the University did not have the right to refuse participation in the buyout or investment in RJR-Nabisco...

Author: By Rebecca L. Walkowitz, | Title: Scott Asserts Need for Agressive Fundraising | 2/7/1989 | See Source »

...part of the agreement between MSP and theHarvard body that will moniter the profit-makingcompany, the University will only agree to housethe research "where there is overlap" of thosefinancial and scientific interests, Scott said...

Author: By Rebecca L. Walkowitz, | Title: Scott Asserts Need for Agressive Fundraising | 2/7/1989 | See Source »

...rhetoric, the Reagan Administration's policy was entirely geared to overthrowing the Sandinista regime. Put simply, it made no sense to negotiate with the Marxist-Leninist Sandinistas when the only deal the U.S. wanted was their abdication. And besides, they couldn't be trusted to live up to any agreement. Eight years, $250 million and one contra % army later, the Sandinistas are still in power. It was one of Reagan's starkest foreign policy failures, producing neither a military victory nor a diplomatic breakthrough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nicaragua Sending Signals - or Smoke? | 2/6/1989 | See Source »

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