Word: pact
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...That's why 160 countries signed the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which requires industrial nations to reduce their greenhouse emissions to an average of 5.2% below 1990 levels between the years 2008 and 2012. But even that weak treaty remains controversial, and governments have made little progress toward implementing the pact. The U.S. Senate hasn't even considered ratifying it. Opponents seize on the possibility that the warming we're seeing may not be our doing but just part of the natural variation in climate...
...With a covenant marriage, you eliminate the option of walking out from a mind-set point of view," explains Mike Johnson of Baton Rouge. Mike, a 27-year-old attorney, wed Kelly, a 26-year-old teacher, a year ago in a covenant pact. "We're saying, 'Let's not do marriage lite,'" says Mike. At which point Kelly interposes, "It's marriage heavy...
...role all the more essential," says Ed Abington, a former member of Ross's team. In fact, the joke at State is that essential Ross has found lifetime employment in trying to bring peace to the Middle East, where deals take decades to mature. But if he manages a pact this week, he'll happily be one step closer to needing...
...Just making sure you owe him for life. Now, you act, sing, dance and bend spoons with your mind. Have you made some kind of pact with the devil...
...have merely made a pact with the William Morris Agency...