Word: agreements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan and President-elect Bush to accept the invitation, arguing that under Mikhail Gorbachev the Soviets are steadily improving their human-rights record by releasing political prisoners, allowing greater Jewish emigration, and ending the jamming of Western radio broadcasts. By joining the session, the Administration hopes to win Soviet agreement to close out a conference on European security and cooperation in Vienna, providing Reagan with a final foreign policy victory. That would, in turn, allow Bush to begin substantive new talks aimed at reducing NATO and Warsaw Pact conventional forces...
Habitat, which will raise more than $30 million this year, is not a charity organization. Homeowners must qualify for their loans and make mortgage payments over a fixed period, typically 20 years. Also, they abide by a "sweat equity" agreement to participate in the construction of their own homes and donate so many hours of labor to building other homes. Insists Fuller: "We're not caseworkers, we're co-workers...
...fact, the agreement was a stunning about-face by the most influential, go-go investment-banking house of the 1980s. After maintaining for two years that Drexel had done nothing wrong, a shaken board of directors voted 16 to 6 to accept the stiff terms proposed by Rudolph Giuliani, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. The deal calls for Drexel to plead guilty to six felony counts involving mail, wire and securities fraud and to pay a record $650 million in penalties. Some $300 million of the fine would go to the Government, which has spent...
...innocence and launched a major advertising campaign extolling the civic virtues of its junk bonds. Joseph claims that the two-year federal probe cost Drexel $1.5 billion in lost revenues and an additional $175 million in legal and advertising fees. Since November, the firm has bargained for an agreement that, as chairman Robert Linton put it, "would not make us look like a bunch of thieves...
Shamir is the clear winner in Israel's battle to control a new and more complicated diplomatic environment. To cement his authority, Shamir refused to repeat the 1984 unity agreement under which each party in turn held the Prime Minister's chair. Reinforcing the government's shift to the right is the appointment of Likud's Moshe Arens, the hawkish former Ambassador to Washington, to replace Labor leader Shimon Peres as Foreign Minister in Shamir's 26-member Cabinet. Peres, under strong pressure from his party to ensure a government bailout of the troubled Histadrut labor federation and the kibbutz...