Word: agreement
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...looks like George Mitchell should start packing his bags. The former U.S. senator from Maine, who engineered last year's Good Friday accord aimed at bringing peace in Northern Ireland, saw the agreement in tatters on Thursday when Protestant loyalists pulled up at the last hurdle. Britain on Thursday formally put the peace process under review after David Trimble's Ulster Unionist Party refused to take its seats at the head of the new Northern Ireland Assembly created by the agreement. The Unionists rejected London's plan allowing the Republican Sinn Fein to take their seats in the assembly before...
...than working as employees." More leverage, more benefits, more respect ?- and, of course, more money. "Profit-sharing could even be a part of this down the road," says Baumohl. "The teams are individual companies, who share in the league revenues -- why not the umps?" The umpires? current collective bargaining agreement (which doesn?t allow them to strike, prompting this maneuver) runs out in December. With the baseball business booming and the pennant chases approaching, the umpires must figure the timing is right. Because there?s only thing that gets more abuse at the ballpark than a professional ump -? an amateur...
They're not really stealing, of course, but that's the way U.S. drug companies--backed by Uncle Sam--view a tactic being employed in South Africa and elsewhere. The tactic uses a loophole in the World Trade Organization's Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights agreement to exempt worst-hit countries from patent restrictions on essential drugs. The loophole, Article 31, authorizes emergency use of "compulsory licensing" to produce essential drugs locally as long as royalties are paid. Another tactic: parallel importing, or buying in a country where the needed drugs are cheaper, circumventing artificially high prices...
...least you're not alone. There's a shelf full of medical reference books all in agreement that mitral-valve prolapse affects about 1 in 10 Americans--an estimated 27 million people--and is even more common among young women...
...sworn in Tuesday, got off to a fast start, issuing a rousing call for a "peace of the brave" with his Palestinian and other Arab neighbors. And in the clearest signal yet that he plans a substantial land-for-peace trade with Syria, Barak offered a peace agreement based on United Nations resolutions recognizing Syrian sovereignty over the disputed Golan Heights. He also repeated his campaign pledge to get Israeli forces out of Lebanon within a year. And Barak vowed to implement the Wye River agreement signed - and then suspended ? by his predecessor, Benjamin Netanyahu. But in a sign...