Word: pacts
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MALAYSIA Antiterror Pact The leaders of Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines signed a cooperation agreement to combat terrorism and target Islamic fundamentalists who they say threaten all three states. The accord allows for combined antiterrorism operations and the sharing of information, including airline passenger lists...
...like this one: “I think in one sense that Larry Summers is the Ariel Sharon of American higher education.” After all, Summers is Harvard’s first Jewish president, and the metaphor seems to hint at Jewish collusion and conspiracy, a lurid pact by powerful Jews to oppress minorities...
Farguell, 46, general manager of Futbol Club Barcelona, has made a three-year pact with the National Football League to help buoy the popularity of U.S. football in Europe and European soccer in the U.S. His soccer team will play exhibition games in NFL stadiums, and the Barcelona Dragons, part of NFL Europe, will join F.C. Barcelona's 16-team empire...
Critics say cronyism and greed are to blame for many of the misguided budget decisions. They seem to have a strong case when it comes to the Army's Crusader. It's not a nimble weapon; the two-vehicle system weighs more than 80 tons. Designed to destroy Warsaw Pact tanks on the German plain, it might have some utility if the U.S. Army ever has to battle Iraqi tanks, in the unlikely event that air power can't finish the job. The Crusader has detractors, like candidate Bush, but it also has powerful backers. United Defense, the company building...
...stability and growth pact was Germany's price for giving up the sacred deutsche mark in favor of the euro. No way would the country allow those profligate Italians and other high rollers to debase the new common currency by spending more than they could afford and running high deficits that would ignite inflation. So every member of the monetary union had to don a whalebone corset "Made in Germany." Above all, nobody could generate a deficit higher than 3% of GDP. Or else...