Word: agreement
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...TIME staff did, however, also see confusion and intimidation. Despite an eleventh-hour agreement to allow independent Egyptian bodies such as the ICEM to monitor voting, TIME encountered Egyptian monitors who claimed to have been blocked from entering some polling stations. ICEM monitor Suleiman Azahiry, 26, said he feared arrest and was ordered to remain 100 yards from a voting station near the village of Tukh, 15 miles north of Cairo. ?They wrote our names down and threatened us,? Azahiri, who acknowledged his opposition to Mubarak?s re-election, told TIME after the incident...
...some places, I saw (NDP members) give voters 10 pounds ($1.75) with my own eyes,? he told TIME. In Helwan, supporters of two opposition parties said officials at an NDP office gave 20 Egyptian pounds ($3.50) and a fast-food sandwich to young men in exchange for their agreement to go to polling stations and vote for Mubarak...
...prelude to the showdown in '06. Democrats have recruited at least three other veterans to run for House seats and are close to signing on another--in a North Carolina district where Republican incumbent Robin Hayes is considered vulnerable because he voted for the Central American Free Trade Agreement. Marine reservist Timothy Dunn told TIME he wasn't ready to announce he is running but will probably enter the race...
SIRIUS Satellite Radio announced that it had inked a three-year agreement with the Ivy League to broadcast a “Game of the Week” during the football and men’s basketball seasons...
Neither Sirius nor the Ivy League would comment on the specific terms of the agreement...