Word: agreement
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...people. "Either you replace the people or you replace the parliament," Netanyahu said in a televised speech to the Knesset Monday night. "And I agree to replace the parliament." Israel's prime minister says the people support his policies (which are essentially an abandonment of the October Wye Plantation agreement) and that it's the Labor party, which split with Netanyahu's governing coalition after he refused to comply with a scheduled withdrawal of troops from the West Bank, that's ignoring the will of the people...
...Frankly, the market disappeared for that car," says chairman John Smith. But now GM is reviving--though also downsizing--its plans. Instead of 100,000 midsize cars a year, it intends to produce 40,000 seven-seat multipurpose vans annually. GM has also concluded what Smith calls "a strategic agreement" with Japan's Suzuki to "work together in the lower end of the car market," and is looking at joint projects it could undertake with Daewoo of South Korea...
...time, cut interest rates simultaneously.) Sharp fluctuations in exchange rates would be a very unwelcome complication to this effort. So, Putnam predicts, financial technocrats will get involved. "Instead of getting wild swings, we may end up with fixed exchange rates" between the euro and the dollar, set by tacit agreement between the Fed and the Euroland bank...
...decade has passed since a Pan Am jetliner exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all 270 people aboard. Now the Libyan parliament has endorsed an agreement, backed by the U.S. and Britain, to try two of its nationals in the Netherlands for the 1988 bombing. Britain called the development encouraging, but others aren't so sure...
...toward extradition. And if Straw is tempted to let the old dictator go, he faces another roadblock: the once arcane principle of universal jurisdiction. This dates to the heyday of piracy, when any nation could deal with the brigands of the high seas. These days there is considerable agreement that systematic torture and genocide are such heinous crimes that any country should be free to try those who are accused of them. "Some crimes go beyond boundaries," says Robert Pastor, a member of Carter's National Security Council, "and we ought to pursue them that way." So rather than extradite...