Word: agreement
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...Russia, says Marshall Goldman, associate director of the Davis Center for Russian Studies at Harvard, "there's no bottom fishing at any price. It doesn't make sense if after you've gotten there you get squeezed and discover you have no rights." Moscow is finally pushing an agreement to share energy revenues with foreign companies that are desperately needed to develop this sector, but that still won't undo the baleful effect of low world oil prices. "Sixty percent of Russia's export earnings come from oil and gas," says Goldman. "As long as world commodity prices stay...
...easy answers to the mounting U.S. current account imbalance. The normal strategy would be for Washington to raise interest rates, but that would create a vicious circle: depress the stock market, diminish consumer spending and drive foreign money away. Lipp hopes the threat of a recession would provoke quick agreement among the G-7 countries to cut interest rates and taxes. But Hormats cautioned that in the U.S. there's no prospect of easy accord between Clinton and the Republican Congress on cutting taxes or, even harder, deficit spending. Expect a lot of Washington jawboning this year to encourage Europe...
...talk about civility for a moment. Or rather, let me talk about it, and you shut up. I am better qualified, since I am a Democrat who was fully in agreement with the Republican position on impeachment as I understood...
Negotiators for the two sides have been locked up in a 14th century castle in Rambouillet, southwest of Paris, under orders from European foreign ministers to come up with an autonomy agreement in two weeks for the province's 2 million people, 90% of whom are ethnic Albanians. But after a week of bluster and posturing, almost nothing has been decided. The Serbs refused even to talk about the text of a possible agreement, engaging instead in a series of diplomatic maneuvers that did nothing but kill time. About the only thing the two delegations could agree on was that...
...recently as two weeks ago a headline in the New York Times was using the term "holy war" to describe meetings in Malaysia over the future of wireless phones. But a pending agreement between the two main rivals, Sweden's Ericsson and California's Qualcomm, could signal the end of hostilities for the double-consonant combatants...