Word: agreement
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...depending on whom you believe, the Chinese economy is bottoming out or even beginning to grow again. But if there's consensus that things are looking up for China in the short term, there's little agreement on two crucial questions that inevitably accompany these signs of life in the world's third-largest economy: will anyone but Chinese benefit from Beijing's apparent success in heading off the worst effects of the economic crisis? And, if the rebound is real, will it last...
...part of a voluntary settlement agreement with Health and Human Services, Robert B. Fogel will not be allowed to serve the U.S. Public Health Service in any advisory capacity for three years. All research affiliated with Fogel funded through the Public Health Service during this period will be subject to supervision...
Further handicapping proceedings is intense time pressure. START expires in December of this year, meaning that an agreement will need to be reached by August if the treaty is to be approved by the U.S. Senate prior to START's expiration. Then there is an even more basic problem. "Over the past decade," says Steve Andreasen, a former director for arms control on the National Security Council, "many of the career officials experienced in these issues have left government, and they have not been replaced during an era when arms control was not a priority." Peter Zimmerman, former chief scientist...
...original START treaty opted for the former approach, setting absolute limits of 6,000 warheads and 1,600 intercontinental ballistic missiles, submarine-launched ballistic missiles and bombers per side. But the most recent nuclear-arms-control agreement, the 2002 "Moscow Treaty," settled on the more nebulous measure of "operationally deployed warheads" (of which both sides are allowed 2,200). That way of counting, which the Russian government and some American arms-control advocates now oppose, measures only the number of nuclear weapons on the tips of long-range missiles or on bomber bases. Most long-range missiles are capable...
...South Africa's government than they do in, say, Zimbabwe, the party's critics see the same bad underlying dynamics at work. Andrew Feinstein, a former ANC MP who resigned in 2001 in protest at the way his party was frustrating an investigation into a corrupt $5 billion arms agreement (the same deal from which Zuma was alleged to have benefited), says the last few years have seen a "regression in Africa's proudest democracy that seeps into some of those stereotypes of African Big Men." Raymond Suttner, a former ANC activist who was detained from 1975-1983, talks...