Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...conflict, it's easy to take recourse in one-sided rhetoric such as that of "How Wye Failed the Palestinians" (Nov. 10). Bishara and Fahmawi reveal an astonishing lack of understanding of the basis for negotiation, despite their claim to seek a just peace. The essence of a peace agreement is compromise. Those who live in the Middle East, both Arab and Jew, unerstand that while Oslo and Wye are certainly not perfect, they are steps on A peaceful compromise. In a process of compromise, each side must make efforts to understand the other, Bishara and Fahmawi criticiz Israel...
...total agreement with the Adams House students who feel that our dining hall is being used as a better, more beautiful Loker Commons by students from other Houses and freshmen. Because of our location and the reputation of our kitchen (and because we are one of the few Houses that retains some distinctiveness of character), Adams has always attracted more interhouse diners than most other Houses...
...that they would quit the case; and Clinton's lawyers backed away from the whole circus. Things were stalled until last week when the newest Jones attorney, Susan's husband William McMillan, approached Bennett and agreed to put in writing that Hirschfeld's offer was off the table. The agreement says the $850,000 is the "sole consideration," meaning no other money is legally part of the deal. But Hirschfeld's attorney said last week that the $1 million is still available...
...Microsystems, also involved in the talks, would take over Netscape's server-end software; AOL would run the popular Netcenter portal and keep the browser itself in safe hands. Right now, AOL has an exclusive contract with Microsoft to distribute Internet Explorer to its 14 million subscribers; that agreement may expire on January 1, 1999. A deal to divide Netscape with Sun would give AOL's Steve Case a chance to get out of bed with Bill Gates -- whom Case once described as "the enemy" -- by hooking up with Redmond's two biggest rivals...
...Piper Cub than from another country firing intercontinental ballistic missiles. And maintaining a nuclear deterrent doesn't protect us from that scenario." Besides, waiting for the Russians would force the Pentagon to spend hundreds of millions of dollars maintaining weapons systems that will be scrapped as soon as the agreement is endorsed...