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...Italy, the center-right government of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is in a running feud with the Commission over how to interpret rules requiring budgetary discipline for countries in the euro zone. Those rules, outlined in the E.U.'s Stability and Growth Pact, are proving to be a major obstacle for the Italian government as it tries to implement campaign pledges for income and corporate tax relief...
...Tyson added a cryptic coda later on in some comments that were distributed to the media pack by a pool reporter. The once-upon-a-time champ and fright figure explained the mutual-politeness pact between himself and Lewis by comparing it to the pigeons he now keeps in his spare time. They would scrap ferociously until they were fed, he said. Then they became placid and still. Intentionally or not, the metaphor carried over to the ring, where the issue had been joined and resolved, and the eight-figure purses enjoyed by both fighters had surely sated their appetites...
...combat my fears, I’ve made a pact with myself to have an exciting adult existence. I’m not exactly sure what this entails, but I’m open to just about anything. Maybe I’ll bartend on weekends and drive a motorcycle. Or, maybe I’ll take up yoga and lead wilderness adventures. And of course, modeling is always another viable option...
...whole point of the new arms-reduction pact between the U.S. and Russia is to make the world a safer place. But some experts argue that the agreement will do just the opposite. After all, stripping thousands of Russian nuclear weapons from well-guarded missiles, bombers and submarines and squirreling them away in less secure storage sites will make them tempting targets for ambitious terrorists...
...nearly erupted as Jamiat, in preparation for a parade to mark the 1992 fall of the communist regime, moved more tanks into the city. Dostum followed suit. When clashes broke out in outlying districts to the south, the city looked poised for a major battle. Under a U.N.-brokered pact signed May 5, both sides agreed to pull back their armor and turn over security in Mazar to a 600-man police force composed of troops from all five factions in the city - Jamiat, Jombesh and three smaller Shi'ite groups. But the peace is an uncertain and provisional...