Word: marathoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...swordswomen launched their marathon with a strong showing against Brandeis Wednesday night, dealing the second-ranked team in New England a 10-6 death blow in that team's first defeat of the season...
...rise in tensions came in the wake of an agreement that first appeared to defuse the latest cycle of labor turmoil. After a 13-hour negotiating marathon, union and government representatives early last week announced a tentative settlement on two of Solidarity's key demands. The government accepted, in principle, a five-day work week, but would allow only three free Saturdays a month for the rest of the year. Solidarity was also promised access to state television and radio...
...previous refusal to negotiate and dispatching the Minister of Union Affairs, Stanislaw Ciosek, to Rzeszow. Ciosek informed the strikers the government was ready to talk. With that, Walesa and a handful of dissidents left for bargaining sessions in Warsaw. At week's end, after a 13-hour negotiating marathon, both sides announced agreement on the work week and access to the media. The government accepted the 40-hour week in principle but would only allow three free Saturdays a month this year; in addition, Solidarity would be granted a one-hour weekly television program...
...negotiated through excruciating marathon sessions in Algiers, Tehran and Washington that repeatedly threatened to end in impasse, the agreement requires the U.S. to renounce any intention to interfere in the internal affairs of Iran, to lift its embargo against trade with Iran, and to ask its allies in Europe to do the same. These provisions have already been carried out, although little American trade is expected to be resumed for quite some time. The U.S. also agreed to help locate any assets of the late Shah and his family in America and to freeze them while Iran tries to establish...
...chance of delivering that hug was made possible by the patience and persistence of the outgoing President and his tireless diplomats. They labored through marathon meetings in Washington and Algiers, as other key actors in the drama, including turbaned Iranian clerics and pin-striped international bankers, met in London, New York, Tehran and Washington. As the negotiations intensified, the gulf between the U.S. and the ever unpredictable government of Iran, ruled by the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, an 80-year-old mystic leader, had looked too wide to be breached readily...