Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...free-trade deal could prove to be the key economic event of the decade for both countries. Economists have estimated that by 1999 Canada could have added 2% to 3% to its gross national product under the agreement, and the U.S. about 1% to its GNP. Equally important, the accord is expected to provide impetus for free trade globally at a time when protectionist forces are on the rise...
...Port Coquitlam, he told supporters that "2 million jobs are dependent on trade." Wherever he traveled the Prime Minister declaimed, "John Turner says the cause of his life is to tear up a treaty; the cause of my life is to build a nation." Failure to endorse the trade agreement, he warned, would leave the country mired in the "poverty of protectionism...
What most annoys Shultz's critics is his conviction that he alone knows how to persuade the Israelis to cooperate with American efforts in the region. Last spring Shultz waged a similar single-handed campaign on behalf of a memorandum of agreement that strengthened Israel's unique military and economic ties to the U.S. He resisted suggestions that the U.S. should use the memorandum negotiations to persuade Israel to moderate its strong-arm tactics against the Palestinian intifadeh...
...only one month ago, the Liberal Party was moribund. It was running last, 14 points down in the polls, behind even a minor third party. Then it suddenly found its voice as the fierce defender of the nation against the American threat, disguised this time as a free-trade agreement. The Liberals turned the election into a referendum on patriotism. That did not win them the election -- though the left would have won had it not divided its 52% of the vote between two parties -- but it did save them from catastrophe. They doubled their representation in Parliament and remain...
...Washington, State Department officials hailed the news as a testament to the tenacity of mediator Chester Crocker, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs. The agreement is expected to clear the way for the withdrawal of South African troops from Namibia and independence for the former South African protectorate...