Word: pact
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...something a little more substantial than a couple of thousand rent-a-cops in fancy uniforms. For starters, May 14 would be a prime day to take advantage of the fiftieth anniversary of the Hague Convention by declaring America’s intention to sign and ratify the pact at last. Becoming a global leader in social responsibility will go farther to ending anti-U.S. sentiment and terrorism than bullying and warmongering ever will...
...against the Nazis in World War II but became disenchanted in 1968 when he witnessed the Poles preparing to invade Czechoslovakia. From 1972 to '81, he provided some 35,000 pages of documents to the CIA, intelligence that an agency analyst said "virtually defined our knowledge" of the Warsaw Pact, and may have helped prevent a Soviet invasion of Poland...
Negotiators for the U.S. and the European Union are moving toward liberalizing the transatlantic aviation market. A crucial goal for the U.S. side: more access to London's Heathrow Airport. An old, restrictive U.S.-British pact allows only American and United to fly to the world's busiest hub. For their part, the Europeans want their carriers to be allowed to fly to U.S. cities from anywhere in Europe. KLM, for example, can fly to the U.S. only from its home country, the Netherlands, but would prefer to operate from Paris or London as well. With Air France...
...presidential candidates' strategies for beating Bush. But genuinely Democratic politicians have been missing in action since the 1960s. The Democrats are vying for the hearts and minds of the party faithful, but they abandoned their core values and hung their supporters out to dry long ago. They made their pact with the devil to stay in office no matter what the cost. Principles were the first casualty. Democrats should stop their charade and join the Republicans. After all, enough Dems sided with the G.O.P. to pass tax cuts, reform Medicare and approve the invasion of Iraq. At least we know...
...this is the area that arouses so much suspicion among smaller states, who fear any initiative will be designed more to benefit the Big Three than the E.U. as a whole. Smaller states are still smarting over the laxity shown when France and Germany violated the Stability and Growth Pact last year, after many of them had to endure painful budget cuts and pay fines for similar failings. Last week, Portuguese Prime Minister José Manuel Dur?o Barroso said, "We do not accept that two or three countries should make the decisions and then serve us up the meal...