Word: reopening
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...negotiators despaired of settling the funding questions in advance and agreed to reopen the issue in Rio. Some observers think the Group of 77 may have made a tactical blunder by pushing so hard for financial and technical aid. Sir Crispin Tickell, Britain's former ambassador to the U.N., has called it a "diplomatic mistake of the highest magnitude." Others criticize the Earth Summit organizers, who by putting so many environmental problems on the negotiating table may have inadvertently ensured that none of them get solved...
...promised $600 million in federal assistance for rebuilding. More might be needed. Property damage is already estimated at $785 million, and the figure is bound to go higher, quite likely topping $1 billion. An estimated 10,000 businesses have been shut down, many never to reopen. Peter Ueberroth, the former baseball commissioner and 1984 U.S. Olympics organizer, who has been designated chief of Rebuild L.A. by Mayor Tom Bradley, puts the number of lost jobs at 25,000 minimum -- maybe three times that many...
...weeks ago has been repeatedly violated, the E.C. tried again. Its chief negotiator, Britain's Lord Carrington, flew to Sarajevo and worked out another truce among Bosnia's Muslims, Croats and Serbs and the federal army. Leaders of the warring groups promised to observe the cease-fire and reopen negotiations, but such pledges in the past have gone unfulfilled...
...small aqua-colored newsstand is boarded up and vacant now, but its owner, Joseph R. Indelicato Jr. is determined to reopen it. Indelicato is currently petitioning the city to allow him to expand his line of products to include not only newspapers and magazines but also lottery tickets, racing forms and other items...
...Wiener says that if the petition is granted, and the shed is allowed to reopen with more merchandise, his ability to compete will be seriously impaired...