Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...peace settlement, negotiated between Pakistan and Afghanistan under the auspices of the United Nations, is to be signed on Thursday...
Nancy Seddinger, who runs a real estate business in North Myrtle Beach, S.C., learned last December that her company owed $22,000 in interest and fines. The company accountant contacted the IRS to question the ruling and try to reach some sort of settlement. But in February, with the matter still / unresolved, the agency grabbed the firm's bank account. Seddinger could not meet her payroll and had to halt operations. Her Congressman, Democratic Representative Robin Tallon, later managed to get the bank accounts released, but Seddinger is still jousting with the IRS to clear up what she calls...
Given the probing, contentious nature of scholarly minds, any permanent settlement of these centuries-old issues seems unlikely. Despite the soul searching at Stanford and elsewhere, no reading list is ever going to satisfy everyone. Nor should it. Even friends of Stanford's original 15 readings concede that they constituted a mighty loose little canon -- for example, two pieces by Freud, but no Shakespeare and not a word by any American writer or political philosopher, such as James Madison...
Soviet officials claimed earlier this week that Pakistan, Afghanistan's eastern neighbor, and the United States were delaying a settlement. They threatened to make a separate withdrawl arrangement with the Afghan leadership if the Geneva talks failed...
Gorbachev and Najib declared in the eight-point communique they "believe that the last obstacles to concluding the agreements have now been removed thanks to constructive cooperation of all who are involved in the settlement, and favor their immediate signing...