Word: pacts
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...going by declaring war on everybody, and in August 1792 a Parisian mob stormed the Tuileries Palace. (That was before everybody started leaving Paris in August.) In August 1907 the first motorized taxicab made its appearance on the streets of New York; more violence still. The Kellogg-Briand Pact was signed on Aug. 27, 1928, without which there would be no world peace. Tony Bennett was born on Aug. 13, 1926, without which there would be no Tony Bennett...
Moscow's mood swings were carefully monitored by newsmen from other members of the Warsaw Pact, who adjusted the tone of their reports accordingly. The trench-coated cadre kept watch on the summit press center's bulletin boards, which displayed the latest dispatches from the government news agency TASS. Declared Boris Tchakarov, correspondent for the Sofia daily Zemedelsko Zname (Agrarian Banner): "I want to see how TASS is writing about events." In the East bloc news game, not only do you get no extra points for scooping the big guys, you might lose some...
...Liedtke, Getty and Harold Williams, who represented the J. Paul Getty Museum. The document called for Getty to be acquired by a partnership of Pennzoil and a trust composed of the Getty heirs. Jamail contended that Texaco had unethically pressured key Getty shareholders to break the pact with Liedtke and opt for a higher offer...
...clear to Zhu that Greenberg, a private U.S. citizen with deep knowledge of China, had been given extraordinary authority. So Zhu sent Long to the "Greenberg suite" of a Shanghai hotel partly owned by AIG, and the two began working out the final pieces of a historic trade pact that, incidentally, gave Greenberg what he wanted: the right to keep running wholly owned subsidiaries...
...civil-war rivals are already bickering over how to divvy up power with the Syrians gone. Nobody is talking yet about the most contentious issues facing the new parliament: how to disarm Hizballah, the militant Shi'ite group, and reconfigure the 1943 power-sharing agreement known as the National Pact. The task of uniting the country has fallen to Saad, a shy Georgetown University graduate who makes no secret that he would rather be scuba diving or riding his Harley. "Watch me," he told TIME in a recent interview at the wood-paneled fourth-floor office where his father used...