Word: agreement
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...that provides drinking water for residents of Louisiana and Texas); and shipped toxic waste laced with mercury to South Africa without notifying the EPA, as required by law. Last March, on the third day of what was expected to be a three-week trial, the company signed a consent agreement to settle the case. Without admitting any wrongdoing, Borden Chemicals agreed to pay a fine of $3.6 million--the largest in Louisiana history. The company also consented to spend $3 million to clean up groundwater contamination and stop injecting waste into underground storage wells, and to donate...
...costly habit may get costlier. A $206 billion agreement reached between the tobacco industry and state attorneys general, who had sued to recoup Medicaid costs, could lift the price of a cigarette pack by about 40[cents] over five years (vs. $1.10 under an earlier proposal). But perhaps your kids will save a bundle--if tobacco firms fulfill a pledge not to promote their products to young people...
...agreement itself constitutes a very small step with respect to a very large problem," he said...
Although the Wye agreement included significant land and counterterrorism commitments, it did not extend to the most contentious questions dividing Israel and the Palestinian Authority--such as the future of Jerusalem...
Next year, Hankins will teach the course as part of a "three-years-on, three-years-off agreement" with Ozment, who currently teaches History 10a. In the spring, Coolidge Professor of History David G. Blackbourn, the department's acting chair, will teach History...