Word: agreements
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Coop hired Barnes & Noble to manage day-to-day operations of the bookstore, with an agreement to keep it running as a cooperative...
...abstract, free trade is feel-good fellowship. Trash the tariffs and, globally, consumers profit from lower prices. Political enemies turn into economic friends--who trades together plays together. In the half-century since the WTO's predecessor, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, was founded with 23 members, worldwide trade has expanded some 15-fold, to $6.5 trillion. As the world's largest exporter and importer, the U.S. owes nearly a third of its economic growth in the past decade to trade. "Cooperation is not a choice," says Mike Moore, the onetime meatpacker and New Zealand Prime Minister...
...merger deal had been under discussion for two months. Finally, all the intricacies had been worked out. The last step in sealing the agreement turned out to be...a moonlight disco-dancing cruise...
Because Clinton has been given the opportunity to waive some of the agreement's restrictions, the compromise is not so devastating that it justifies prolonging America's debt to the United Nations...
...case of the UN, it is better to compromise and wait for political change than to not compromise and wait for political change. Responsible politics should compel us to accept this relatively painless agreement and pay the UN dues...