Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...actual details of the budget agreement, we are pleased that funds have been allocated for the hiring of 100,000 new teachers but wish that these new instructors could be held to some national standard of competency and money had been allocated to build new schools and refurbish old and decrepit ones...
Last Thursday President Clinton and congressional leaders came to an agreement on the allocation of $500 billion of the federal budget, likely averting a government shutdown like the one that crippled the nation in 1995. Both sides have claimed victory, but the most powerful lesson of the negotiations was the persistent power of our Chief Executive. An amazing testament to his resilience, Clinton was able to win concessions on education, relief for farmers and funding for the International Monetary Fund even as he faces removal from office...
McAleese stressed that open dialogue was the linchpin of the Northern Ireland peace agreement...
Earlier in the day, John Hume and David Trimble, the leaders of Northern Ireland's largest Roman Catholic and Protestant parties, respectively, were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their work in the April 10 Northern Ireland Good Friday peace agreement...
Serbia may be dragging its feet over withdrawing from Kosovo, but NATO will let President Milosevic off the hook despite issuing stern warnings on Thursday. "Holbrooke's agreement has been designed to allow everyone to save face," says TIME Central Europe bureau chief Massimo Calabresi. Milosevic is proclaiming himself the hero -- and silencing Serbs who disagree -- while NATO is able to recover some of its diminished prestige in the region: "NATO has managed to make it look as if they backed Milosevic down without actually having to bomb, which nobody really wanted to do," says Calabresi...