Word: pacts
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Mukherjee mentioned a pact under which the United States will help India develop its civilian nuclear industry...
...When Musharraf's government, earlier this month, concluded a non-aggression pact with local pro-Taliban militants in the tribal province of Waziristan - long considered a likely hiding place of Osama bin Laden and other key al-Qaeda leaders - NATO leaders were as furious as Karzai. Reports that the deal had been brokered in part by exiled Taliban leader Mullah Omar only deepened the sense that Pakistan had, in effect, made a separate peace with the Taliban. Key NATO countries whose troops are fighting a hot war with the Taliban in southern Afghanistan - Britain, Canada, Australia and the Netherlands - actually...
...voice that could traverse a continent and tell its inside stories to the outside world. It's a struggle that has already found her an audience in France, where pioneering publishing house Actes Sud translated her first novel, Plains of Promise, and a collection of her short stories, The Pact of the Rainbow Snake. But being heard in her homeland proved tougher. "I often realized that nobody could accompany me in my travels, as I often took an alternative path?the perilous one," the author writes in her Actes Sud-commissioned essay, Croire en l'incroyable (Believe the Unbelievable...
...Ultimately, with the Bush Administration opposing tough greenhouse gas controls, California's pioneering efforts will be successful only if other states follow its lead. Already, there are moves in that direction, with seven mid-Atlantic and New England states having signed a pact to cut power plant emissions by ten percent by 2019. California can be "a world leader in the effort to reduce carbon emissions," Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger predicted as the legislature rushed to pass the bill this week. "The success of our system will be an example for other states and nations to follow as the fight against...
...through the silver mirage around a dark mass on the road. With a Formula 1 driver's judgment of closing velocity, at the last second they wheel into the sky, crows playing chicken with the traffic. The tableau of roadkill they are enjoying looks like a multi-species suicide pact. There's the standard eviscerated kangaroo, but also an emu less than a meter away, head tucked under its wing as if sheltering from the wind that fluffs its feathers. Beside it is a foul-smelling black-and-white smear that might have been a penguin, for all the amateur...