Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...basic purpose of an academic institution is to allow for the free distribution of ideas, as the Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities makes clear. When asked if the Business School had a policy on leafleting, an assistant dean replied that there was an "unspoken and unwritten agreement" that it was not encouraged. That does not qualify as a legitimate policy by any stretch of the imagination; as students, we had every right to leaflet on University property and they had no business preventing us from doing...
There was no need to revisit China's agreement to halt its assistance to Iran's nuclear program. That had finally been worked out just minutes before the meeting. In the past, Chinese arms-control assurances have usually been oral promises or couched in the form of dinner-table toasts. This time the U.S. wanted something in writing that promised to cut off nuclear aid to Tehran. That would open the door for American firms to sell nuclear power reactors to China. When Jiang's plane had touched down three days before in Honolulu, the haggling over the form...
...years ago, Interscope was a small record company that became a huge political problem for its then owner, Time Warner (parent company of TIME's publisher), by releasing gangsta-rap albums such as Tupac Shakur's 2pacalypse Now. Capitulating to critics, Time Warner severed its joint agreement with Interscope and sold its 50% stake back to Iovine and Field for $100 million. Four months later, the two resold that stake to hit-starved Universal for $200 million. This is not an industry big on morality plays...
...investigators suspect, may be linked to Haney's securing a highly unusual agreement committing the Federal Communications Commission to a long-term lease at the Portals. The deal came after years of squabbling in the courts and Congress. Investigators say Knight, who is a friend of FCC chairman Reed Hundt, billed the $1 million in January 1996, the same month the agreement was signed, though the check came in April. Knight is scheduled to testify this week before the House Commerce Committee about several of his lobbying efforts for clients who also donated to the Democratic Party; Haney gave more...
...frustrating for us to find out secondhand from a Harvard publication about an agreement that we thought we had already solidified," she said...