Word: agreement
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Despite an infusion of international aid, the agreement failed to bring broader peace or local prosperity. Hussein's refusal to join the gulf coalition against Saddam Hussein, for fear of provoking his pro-Iraq citizenry, angered lifelong Western and Arab friends, and the embargo imposed on a defeated Saddam has savaged Jordan's economy as well. The King deeply mourned the assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, with whom he had hoped to mold a Palestinian state, and many Jordanians grew embittered at the hard-line policies of Benjamin Netanyahu. In Hussein's lifetime, when Jordan may have...
...Kosovo talks deadline, the Serb and ethnic Albanian delegations have yet to negotiate face-to-face. Diplomats scurry back and forth between the two sides, although they're all in the same room for buffet-style meals, reports TIME correspondent Bruce Crumley. "The challenge is to create an agreement that both sides can present differently," says Crumley. "The Serbs need to be able to sell the agreement as ending any prospect of independence for Kosovo, while the Kosovars have to see it as a stepping-stone toward independence...
Grove Properties and the City of Cambridge had come to a verbal agreement last summer...
...premature announcement, and everybody was shocked [that the agreement] disappeared," said Councillor Michael A. Sullivan...
Initially, Grove Property Trust and the City of Cambridge had a verbal agreement that Grove would keep all the affordable units in exchange for a $2.3 million low-interest loan from the city, representing the difference between the market rent price and the affordable-housing price...