Word: pacts
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...likely] to become the next major bottleneck," says Ronan Anderson of the Airports Council International Europe. "Anything that alleviates that is more than welcome." Agreed. Now can IBM do something about jet lag? More Fun With Accounting W hen it comes to interpreting the E.U.'s stability and growth pact, there are no limits to French and German creativity. With both countries at risk of breaching the pact's rules - demanding euro zone countries' budget deficits remain below 3% of GDP - for the fourth straight year, Paris and Berlin last week called for change. French President Jacques Chirac and German...
...craziness comes to an end. That's when a 1995 trade pact called the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing, signed by the members of the World Trade Organization (WTO), stipulates an end to quotas?and buyers like Joshi are free to find the best deals anywhere they can. Ghulam Faruq, a Bangladeshi textile exporter, says American and European companies that currently buy from about 60 countries might source from as few as 20 by 2006 and less than 10 by 2010. China is expected to be the biggest beneficiary under the new regime. Most analysts expect that efficient Chinese manufacturers...
...Portion of worldwide emissions of greenhouse gases caused by the U.S., which has not endorsed the pact...
...enough, most voters seemed to think: after Latham's announcement, his approval rating fell 14 points in as many days. He soon clarified the pullout plan - which will cover only about 340 of the 920 Australian troops still in or near Iraq - and his attitude to the ANZUS pact, which lost its N.Z. component in 1985. "We believe in the value of the alliance," Latham said. "We support the U.S. alliance 100%." To underscore the message, he named Kim Beazley - a former Defence Minister credited with holding the alliance together after New Zealand's exit - as Labor's defense spokesman...
Communism lost its appeal to Davis and her husband after Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed the nonaggression pact early in World War II,her children told the Boston Globe in 1993. But Davis remained vocal about progressive issues through her speeches and writing. She wrote magazine articles about the Harlan County coal strike and the hardship of Southern tenant farming...