Word: agreements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite the agreement on when this year's raises will be paid, Rondeau said the way in which salaries are set would definitely be changed in the course of the negotiations...
Henry Kissinger has been trying to persuade the Bush Administration to work out a new agreement with the Kremlin. The Soviet Union would commit itself to tolerate political and economic pluralism in Eastern Europe in exchange for Western guarantees of Soviet military security. The notion seems to be that Moscow might be more likely to allow Poland, Hungary and other countries to evolve toward democracy and free markets, perhaps even to associate themselves with the European Community, if NATO promises not to lure them out of the Warsaw Pact and perhaps desists from covert intelligence operations behind the Iron Curtain...
When anyone at Drexel Burnham Lambert talks, the Government may soon be listening. Last week the investment firm said it would submit to unprecedented federal supervision as part of an agreement with the Securities and Exchange Commission to settle charges of insider trading and stock fraud. The deal will enable Drexel to proceed with a separate settlement of criminal charges, first announced last December, for which the firm will pay $650 million in fines...
Drexel's pact with the SEC, which must be approved by a federal judge, will allow the firm to close the book on a 2 1/2-year federal probe. But the price is high. The agreement puts Drexel on probation for three years and requires it to set up an oversight committee. The firm is also naming a new chairman, former SEC head John Shad, to succeed Drexel's Robert Linton. As expected, the deal forces Drexel to cut all ties to its former junk-bond king, Michael Milken, who is facing separate criminal charges of racketeering and securities fraud. Last...
Mindful of polls showing that many Americans are more fearful of Japan's economy than of the Soviet Union's military strength, President Bush has made the FSX an example of U.S. willingness to get tough with Japan by reopening an agreement that the Reagan Administration had considered closed. For the second time since he took office, the President last week demanded that Tokyo clarify terms of the FSX deal...