Word: agreements
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Germany struck down the barriers between them like so many tenpins. The most unforgettable and heart-quickening breakthrough was the first, the fall of the Berlin Wall last Nov. 9. Then came free elections in the East on March 18, economic union on July 1, and the Sept. 12 agreement of the four World War II Allies to end their remaining occupation rights in Berlin...
...major trading countries have boosted annual global commerce from $60 billion to nearly $4 trillion annually over the past four decades, thanks in part to their success in reducing tariffs and other protectionist barriers. Even so, during the past decade the world's bridge-building organization, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, has come under heavy fire from critics who claim it is irrelevant and ineffectual in a world of high technology, booming service industries and disparate wage rates...
...shift in the mood seems to have begun several weeks ago, when Baghdad announced a treaty agreement with Iran and gave back to its mortal enemy the few spoils of its war in hopes that Tehran would join the struggle against the U.S. "The people do not understand how Saddam could do that," says a Baghdad shopkeeper...
After much debate and criticism, the controversy has died down. But the conflict between maintaining artistic freedom and integrating the drama world is not easily resolved. Certainly the agreement between Actor's Equity and Mackintosh offers no ideal solutions...
...city and the University have been negotiating the new agreement for the last two years, with Cambridge officials repeatedly insisting that they are near completion of a new deal...