Word: frameworks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...talks alternating between Egyptian and Israeli towns produced the Camp David Accords in 1979. It is the only existing peace treaty between the Jewish state and any of its Arab neighbors. The Israelis see no reason to abandon a framework that worked in the past...
...smuggling of archaeological loot from one region: Latin America. Plunderers of pre-Columbian sites used to have a field day rifling covertly excavated Mayan, Olmec and Incan ruins and shipping the artifacts north to a voracious U.S. market. In 1970 the UNESCO convention on cultural property established an international framework to curb pillage and the illicit trade in artifacts. Among the rich countries that are the biggest markets for stolen works, however, only the U.S. and Canada signed the treaty. Britain, France, & Germany, Switzerland, the Low Countries, Scandinavia and Japan remain holdouts today...
...should] use this committee as a framework on which to organize a logical decision on both sides," McCormack said...
Cole said that the Cambridge spectrum of political debate on big issues is much farther to the left than the national spectrum. "The issues are discussed within a very liberal framework," he said...
...bring peace to his country. And high time too: a civil war involving the government and leftist guerrillas has left 75,000 dead in the past 12 years. Two days later, after 17 months of U.N.-brokered talks, the government and the rebels signed an agreement setting out a framework for reintegrating the rebels of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front into society and offering assurances for their safety...