Word: contract
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...Russians are in a strong bargaining position, but they could become too pliable in the face of Iran's vast oil wealth. To make Russia's decision easier, the U.N. should offer extra financial incentives to Russia in return for a contract prohibiting non-U.N.-approved transfers of nuclear equipment. In this case, prevention is worth the price...
...right to be at Harvard. McGuire, on the other hand, questions my right as a non-heterosexual, non-male to the pursuit of happiness and a Harvard education. McGuire writes in another article that "marriage, properly understood, stands alone among human partnerships, for it begins not with a contract, dependent and rescindable, but with a vow, existential and transcendent," but then proceeds to say homosexuals may not marry or even experience the love of a partnership. It is particularly difficult on my Commencement Day to know that a speaker believes I should not even be sitting in Tercentenary Theatre that...
...payback time. With the backing of prominent Republicans, the Coalition next week will unveil its Contract with the American Family. Its centerpiece, TIME has learned, will be a proposed constitutional amendment to protect "religious expression" -- including a voluntary moment of silence in schools, the use of religious symbols in public places and religious invocations at public ceremonies. The bill would also expend $30 million to fund an experiment in "school choice" in low-income regions; it would end federal funding for such allegedly liberal efforts as the National Endowment for the Arts, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the Department...
...they have. The latest closed-door meeting of Coalition state directors held in Washington in January drew both Dole and Gramm. Furthermore, Coalition lobbyists sat among the select group of outsiders who met regularly in House Speaker Newt Gingrich's suite to coordinate the campaign to pass the Contract with America...
...Christians are close to winning the whole war; they might do it by '96," says Frank Luntz, the pollster behind the Contract with America. "By playing hardball they may win everything, but hardball also risks losing everything." Reed frankly admits, "We're on the very threshold of having to make that kind of decision. It's fraught with both opportunity and hazard. If we make this decision the wrong way, 20 years from now we're going to look back and regret...