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When the supertanker Amoco Cadiz foundered in 1978, spewing 68 million gal. of crude oil over the beaches of Brittany, it created the worst petroleum spill ever to hit land. It also launched one of the world's stickiest legal battles. The French government and a host of other plaintiffs claimed $1.6 billion in damages...
...last fall's summit Gorbachev insisted that cutbacks on medium-range missiles be linked to concessions on Reagan's treasured Strategic Defense Initiative. Now the Soviets are willing to discuss the missiles separately. In addition, they have signaled a greater spirit of cooperation on the two stickiest outstanding issues: verification procedures and shorter-range missiles...
...when they met for the fifth time, at the sleek Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles last week, their wide-ranging talks were amicable, leading to what Nakasone described as "complete agreement on all issues." Actually, the two leaders were able to reach only a vague accord on the stickiest issue of all: what the Japanese call boeki masatsu, or trade friction, and what American manufacturers call by less euphemistic epithets...
...federal funds will be spent. But after wrangling for months in the partisan atmosphere of an election year, leaders of the Republican Senate, the Democratic House and the Reagan Administration finally reached agreement last week on military spending. The compromise included goodies for all participants. But on the stickiest issue, the future of the MX missile, House Democrats came out a clear winner...
...three-and-a-half years, Harvard's lawyers and technical experts had wrestled with MATEP opponents over the cogeneration facility's stickiest question--whether the nitrous oxides emitted by the diesels would be at levels dangerous to residents' health. Hundreds of hours of testimony were given. Thousands of pages on the subject were compiled. And until last November, the courts and a state environmental agency had sided with Brookline and Mission Hill, requiring further controls and further delays. But between the hours of 2 a.m. and noon on Aug. 24, the final engine went to where Harvard had all along...