Word: agreement
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...provide a "signed partnership" agreement with MSU that obligates each party to provide support for one another, and provides for a substantially equal division, upon termination of the relationship, of earnings during the relationship and any property acquired with those earnings...
...Middle East wouldn't wait. Netanyahu's hard-line stands on carrying out provisions of the 1993 agreement and decisions such as the building of a new Jewish settlement in traditionally Arab East Jerusalem enraged and frustrated the Palestinians. Arafat's failure to cooperate with Israeli agents in monitoring and arresting Islamic extremists or to silence the rhetoric of violence that lends their acts legitimacy enraged and stiffened Netanyahu. In the aftermath of the July 30 Jerusalem bombing that took the lives of 15 victims and provoked Israel's punitive response, relations slid down to the level of name calling...
...imaginative, practical ideas that can help bridge the chasm between two such mistrustful adversaries. And those ideas work, says Richard Haass, Middle East adviser under President George Bush, "only if the President is willing to back them up." Clinton could bask in the South Lawn signing of the 1993 agreement because Arafat and Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin were willing to make peace on their own. The test for Clinton now is whether he is prepared to weigh in when the two leaders aren't willing...
...there, plus a few thousand born-again Christians, orthodox Catholics and Jews, and searchers looking for a faith. Mother Teresa was introduced, and she spoke of God, of love, of families. She said we must love one another and care for one another. There were great purrs of agreement...
...Conspiracy of Celebration" [NATION, Aug. 11] has two inconsistent messages for the reader. The first message, portrayed by a misleading chart, conveys that without the recent budget agreement, the federal budget would be in balance in 2002 anyway. Nothing could be further from the truth. The second message was "we didn't do enough." We should have done more to control spending, but the agreement will reduce federal entitlement spending nearly $500 billion over the next decade ($385 billion in the Medicare program alone). It has also set limits to annual appropriations that will reduce spending an additional $520 billion...