Word: madrid
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Prodded by private steelmakers feeling squeezed by such unfair competition, the European Commission this year vowed no new subsidies without permanent production cutbacks. Spain won Commission permission to spend $3.3 billion to pay for consolidation and layoffs connected with a 2.3 million-ton-capacity cut at Ansio, provided that Madrid found private financing for a new 1 million-ton mill in the Basque town of Sestao, which the government had earlier planned to build itself. Just before last week's meeting, Commission officials approved a plan to sell Eisenhuttenstadt to Italian steelmaker Riva and save existing jobs, if Bonn scaled...
...Madrid the minority Socialist government has presented a tough austerity budget calling for below-inflation wage increases for the next three years in the public sector. The British welfare system -- with costs rising 3% annually -- must be reformed to target the "truly needy," according to Britain's Tory government. Under scrutiny is $13 a week paid to all mothers for each child under 16, regardless of wealth. The government has already modified an income- support program that in one notorious case gave an unemployed insurance executive $2,750 a week for mortgage payments on a $1.5 million mansion...
TOLEDO. In this medieval city in central Spain 67 km south of Madrid, Domenikos Theotokopoulos, or El Greco (1541-1614), spent his later years creating a prodigious number of paintings. Nineteen of his highly expressionist works, including the dramatic landscape View of Toledo, are again on display at the recently renovated El Greco Museum. Temporarily closed for restoration is the adjoining Casa del Greco, which contains period furniture, paintings and personal belongings...
...They don't know the relationship. The P.L.O. is the identity of the Palestinian people: there are cadres inside and outside. I signed the decree authorizing the Palestinian delegation to go to Madrid, but I kept it secret at the time. Now we are all members of the follow-up committee. But for this new stage we need to reorganize all our institutions, strengthening them to prepare for very different and difficult responsibilities...
...East game, seemed subdued, even misty- eyed. He walked slowly, graying head bent. "A stunning moment," he murmured. James Baker, Secretary of State for George Bush, thought time had done its work as he watched the tableau of peace. He had convened meetings, pushing the old adversaries together at Madrid 23 months ago. Clinton knew how much that legwork had counted. He reached through three rows of people to make sure Arafat and Rabin shook hands with Baker...