Word: pact
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Congress is increasingly critical of the Japanese trade posture as well. Last week the Senate Finance Committee passed a resolution calling on the President to retaliate against Japan for its alleged failure to live up to the July 1986 semiconductor trade pact. Under that agreement, Japan promised to refrain from selling its chips in the U.S. at prices that are below cost. Concludes Baldrige: "The level of anti-Japanese trade feeling is higher than ever before...
...steadily burning gasoline did its job, releasing deadly carbon monoxide fumes. Within an hour all four were dead. By the end of the week they were notorious. Their multiple-death pact had traumatized their hometown, inspired copycat acts more than 700 miles away and dramatically spotlighted the painful problem of teenage suicide...
...American side, initial optimism is mixed with some wariness. The Soviets have dangled the prospect before of a separate medium-range reduction pact, only to then demand that the agreement be linked to SDI concessions. Cautions former Defense Secretary James Schlesinger: "The Soviets are serious, but whether they're serious about negotiation or propaganda remains to be seen...
Description: Warheads installed: U.S. and Soviet intermediate-range missiles in Europe. NATO and Warsaw Pact conventional forces in Europe. Missiles installed/to be deployed by country...
...month certain members were reported to be cheating on the cartel's production accord, and prices fell below $15 per bbl. Even as Saudi Arabia worked last week to keep the production agreement intact, causing prices to rise about $2, to $18 per bbl., many traders doubted that the pact would ultimately stick. Few OPEC watchers believe that the cartel will be able to push prices higher than $20 per bbl. in the next two years...