Word: pacts
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...fact that India objected to its exclusion from the “nuclear club,” the elite group of states permitted to own nuclear weapons, under the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), is proffered as a reason to refuse the newly proposed pact. That treaty’s outmoded and arbitrary distinction between nuclear “haves” and “have-nots” cannot, however, justify objections to Bush’s proposal to diversify India’s energy sources. A stable democracy explicitly dedicated to a policy of minimum nuclear...
Caitlin and Vix become instant friends, signing a “Never Be Ordinary” pact, and thus ensuring from the start that the book will never be boring. They go back each summer to the Vineyard, where Caitlin strings Vix along. Caitlin is manipulative, but ultimately she needs Vix as a rock to ground her own manic moods. For Vix, Caitlin is like a drug; dangerous yet incredibly tempting, one snort and Vix is hooked yet again...
...creative writers made a pact before leaving the scene. All of their revised theses will contain the words “flying glass” in the final draft. It will be “a code for each other,” Vaz said...
...Ahmadinejad gave a defiant speech last Saturday to tens of thousands of Iranians marking the 27th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution. Repeating that Iran "will not forgo its irrefutable right" to develop nuclear energy, Ahmadinejad warned that Iran may even withdraw from the Non-Proliferation Treaty, the IAEA-policed pact defining the rules of peaceful nuclear energy programs. Then, on Ahmadinejad's instructions, Iran resumed uranium enrichment work Tuesday at its Natanz research facility. That's the type of behavior that has the U.S. claiming Iran is intent on secretly developing a nuclear weapon...
...sound like they would have made for good television as well. (Sadly, the antics were not taped.) Ever confident, Martinez describes the behind-the-scenes tension between himself and the Stanford engineering student, which manifested itself only in strained high-fives on camera.“We made a pact to not let it show up in the show,” he says. “We got all of our bad blood out of the way outside of the show.”In an episode where “tail” puns?...