Word: agreement
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...University signed an agreement yesterday with the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW) which will provide greater compensation for nominally part-time or "casual" employees who worked full-time hours...
...Hoover Institution was not simply the financial backer of the project that produced this collection. With the Russian State Archives (Rosarkhiv), Hoover initiated and directed the project. Since 1992, when I signed an agreement with the Russian State Archives, Hoover and Rosarkhiv have microfilmed over 12 million pages of documentation from the Communist Party and State archives, and are now filming documents on the Soviet Gulag. Hoover provided all the necessary resources for the project. An advisory board composed of scholars representing the Hoover Institution and Rosarkhiv selected the documents filmed for the collection...
President Jiang faces a tricky balancing act these days, made more so by the Clinton Administration's egregious failure to accept a World Trade Organization agreement in April. His speech to the FORTUNE forum included some hard-line words about Taiwan and about America's penchant to preach and meddle. "Every country has the right to choose the social system, ideology, economic system and path of development that suit its national conditions," he said. But the significant message he stressed in his talk was that economic and political liberalization would continue. "The Chinese people," he said, "will firmly and unswervingly...
...even now as HUCTW and Harvard pound out the details of a final agreement, there still remain questions for the union on the exact role of casual employment...
...road to a Palestinian state may now be open, but Palestinians aren?t exactly queuing up at the on-ramps. Yasser Arafat Tuesday approved a draft agreement to open a direct road link between the Palestinian-controlled territories in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, which he plans to combine into a Palestinian state. But Palestinians will be allowed to travel the road only at Israel?s discretion, and that?s left many of Arafat?s constituents angry and frustrated. "To travel this road to Gaza in my car, I?ll need a permit from the Israelis," says TIME West...