Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...environmentalists took part in the meeting at Feinstein's office. Greens have tied up PL's logging in federal court, so Hurwitz would not sit with them. A marathon bargaining session produced a highly complicated agreement that promised to turn over $380 million in cash and land (value and location subject to haggling) to Pacific Lumber. If Hurwitz is satisfied, he passes title to Headwaters, the 425-acre Elk Head grove and a logged-over moonscape between, totaling 7,500 acres. If not, PL's fallers start their chainsaws...
Feinstein called the agreement "win-win," which in matters environmental means nobody is happy. Either party can back out of the agreement on two weeks' notice. Like all good negotiators, Hurwitz knows when to ask for more, and the Greens are certain he will. They now refer sarcastically to the preserved tracts as a tree museum...
...leniency. So Phillips again beat the drums for a strike, demanding that Alomar serve his suspension immediately instead of at the start of next season. On Friday, U.S. District Court Judge Edmund Ludwig in Philadelphia ruled that the Umpires Association would be in violation of its collective-bargaining agreement if it staged a walkout, and so the A.L. umps reluctantly showed up in Cleveland, Ohio, and Arlington, Texas. But we haven't heard the last of the Alomar Affair. This could go beyond beyond-beyond...
...British to their knees--and to the bargaining table--Collins in 1921 helped to negotiate the peace settlement that established the Irish Free State but failed to win full independence for his country and acquiesced in the partition between the Protestant North and the Catholic South. This flawed agreement, which Collins persuasively argued was the best attainable at the time, led first to civil war, then to his own death in an ambush and, finally, to the bloody, endless tragedy that is modern Irish history...
...Jordan would have it--and some academic historians definitely would not--De Valera forced Collins to join the peace negotiations knowing they were bound to produce an agreement that would be unacceptable to many of his countrymen, hoping thereby to destroy a dangerous rival. But, says Charles Townshend, a professor at Keele University in England and a specialist on the British rule of Ireland, Collins was anything but the "simple rebel." He was, in fact, this shadow government's minister of finance and perhaps the ablest politician in the cabinet. He was not gulled by his President into negotiating with...