Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Microsoft to have access to cutting-edge Mac developers," says Kurt King, an analyst with San Francisco-based Montgomery Securities, "particularly in areas like video streaming and other graphics technologies that represent the likely future of Internet content." Ditto Apple's technology patents, which under the new cross-licensing agreement will go from causing endless litigation (the Mac faithful will surely consider Microsoft's undisclosed payment to Apple to settle infringement claims de facto proof that Gates knows he stole their OS) to becoming weapons for Microsoft coders to wield when the time comes...
...clattering along in just the opposite direction. Beset by financial woes, high crime and decaying city services, Washington has now suffered the indignity of having its mayor, Marion S. Barry, stripped of nearly all power. As part of a $1 billion federal-aid package included in the new budget agreement, nine of the city's major agencies, covering everything from schools and housing to public works and the police, have been taken away from Barry and placed under the jurisdiction of a financial control board, which was appointed by Congress two years ago to get the city's finances...
...Sept. 1, the College's compromise agreement with PBHA expires. The agreement established the board as PBHA's governing body and created an executive director position--which reports jointly to the College and PBHA's trustees...
Sound dicey? TIME medical writer Christine Gorman says the deal may have already devalued the seal: "It's when money is changing hands that we start questioning the ethics behind this kind of agreement." Gorman notes that some years ago the American Heart Association launched a more ambitious endorsement plan, only to scrap it because it was too controversial. So who do you turn to for unbiased product information? Try Consumer Reports, which rejects endorsement deals, says Gorman...
...deterioration of long-distance information occurred two years ago, when AT&T got into the business of providing its own long-distance directory-assistance service rather than connecting its customers to Alice or Joe at the local phone company, with whom AT&T used to have an agreement...