Word: accordingly
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From Dec. 3 through 7, trade ministers from 105 countries are scheduled to sit down in Brussels to sign off on a major accord governing nearly $4 trillion in global commerce. But negotiations to revise the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade are on the verge of collapse over the prickly issues of farm subsidies. Last week a new U.S.-European Community dispute over trade in services threatened to make an accord even more difficult...
George Bush -- after nearly 17,000 miles, six countries, a sweeping accord to reduce conventional arms in Europe, a 34-nation peace charter, a dozen speeches, untold private diplomatic understandings, a quart or two of ceremonial champagne, at least 25 clean shirts, eye contact with nearly a million people and G.I. turkey in the Saudi desert (twice) -- came home to roost (certainly not rest) for the weekend. He sent his laundry out, had Air Force One fueled again (53,611 gal.) and got ready to head for Mexico this week...
...North Korea is being forced to swallow its principles and make friends with the countries it has long loved to vilify. September saw the first high-level meeting between North and South Korea; a second round of talks was conducted last month. And just days before the Moscow-Seoul accord, Pyongyang asserted its eagerness to normalize diplomatic relations with Japan, its bitterest enemy of all since the brutal Japanese occupation of the peninsula from...
...enter the race until mid-September, Hickel led in the polls by spending at least $800,000. Hickel ran under the banner of the Alaskan Independence Party -- a secessionist fringe group -- but used it merely as a flag of convenience: he signaled to voters that he was basically in accord with G.O.P. positions and promised to fight for further oil development in Alaska...
...Delhi last year, an alarming increase from the 17 reported in 1980. In recent years the ancient Hindu system of dowries and arranged marriages has taken on a gruesome commercial aspect. By custom, a bride's family is obliged to give cash and gifts to the groom in accord with his social standing. A lowly clerk, for instance, might command $5,000, but a physician or engineer $50,000. Fearful of the disgrace attached to unmarried women, a bride's family will often go beyond its means to secure a good home for a daughter. Such tribute can come...