Word: agreements
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seriously overestimated the ability of inspectors to detect underground explosions. Alarmed by the miscalculation, the Pentagon, the Atomic Energy Commission and some members of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy urgently asked President Eisenhower to modify the U.S. offer lest the U.S. get tied to a crippling agreement that an enemy could violate without detection...
...scientists pinpointed the spot where the automatic ejection would occur: the area of Norway's Spitzbergen archipelago, far beyond the Arctic Circle -some 700 miles from the North Pole. Finding the capsule in Spitzbergen's icy wastes would be hard enough. Tougher still was another problem: under agreement with Soviet Russia, which operates coal mines in Spitzbergen, Norway permits no military operations in the area, keeps the archipelago strictly, delicately neutral...
...caused crude prices to drop 18? a barrel in February (complains Tariki: "We lost $34 million and weren't even consulted"). Last week a high-powered Venezuelan deputation at Cairo urged the Arabs to join in limiting production to stabilize prices. But as always when Arabs get together, agreement was hard to come by. The Iraqis, feuding with Nasser, were not even present. And Iran, remembering how increased production by Arab neighbors thwarted its plans, was unreceptive to Arab plans for a common front...
...most part, the admissions responsibility is one of control, of "keeping the lid on the pressure cooker" as one dean phrases it. There is general agreement about the kinds of students Harvard wants to come here, but the difficulty comes in preserving a balance of types, keeping serving a balance of types, keeping everyone financially afloat, and preserving the philosophy of "opportunity for all" which keeps Harvard a national college. It involves controlling the pressures of mounting applications, rising tuition, alumni fathers, and beefing up the football team...
...brief, informal agreement was drawn up sketching the general lines of the program, and the problem of financing the exchanges was also considered. No definite decision, however, was reached on this matter, and it will probably be mentioned again in correspondence between Harvard and Leningrad later this spring...