Word: agreements
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...time for statesmanship has come. This week the talks will resume in the less than luxurious setting of Andrews Air Force Base, outside Washington. Away from the press and lobbyists, White House and congressional leaders will attempt to fashion an agreement before the Oct. 1 deadline set by the Gramm- Rudman-Hollings Act. If they fail, $100 billion in across-the-board spending cuts -- the so-called sequester -- will go into effect, with $25 billion coming out of military spending and the rest from such activities as prosecuting drug kingpins, closing veterans' hospitals and suspending student loans...
...would grant none of these as preconditions to a pullout. The last two items, officials admitted, could be negotiated between Iraq and Kuwait after a withdrawal is complete. "Then the two countries can reach any agreement they want," said an Administration source. But any formal Iraq- Kuwait link is out of the question for Bush's camp. "That demand tells us that Saddam Hussein still doesn't get it," said a senior White House ; official. "We haven't yet convinced him that he can't hang on to Kuwait, not even indirectly." It was notable, however, that Baghdad's offers...
This weekend the congressional and White House budget summiteers will try again to work out an agreement to chop down the deficit. They will meet in the officers' club complex at Andrews Air Force Base for three days. It is no longer just a session on a budget formula. It is an antidote to chaos...
While details of the agreement were not revealed, it appeared that Yeltsin, who was elected chairman of the Russian republic's parliament in May, had won a round. Gorbachev reportedly accepted, in principle at least, a program for switching to a market economy within 500 days -- the kind of crash program he has resisted because he felt the country was not ready for it. The accord was worked out in the Russian parliament, not in the President's inner circle. Radicals saw the development as a sign of their strength. Said Moscow Mayor Gavril Popov, who favors rapid change: "This...
...Vincent's office last Monday, he was presented with the draft of an order suspending him for two years. As expected, Steinbrenner's lawyers protested. At that moment Vincent unveiled his counteroffer, scribbling the terms on a yellow legal pad that should be enshrined under glass in Cooperstown. The agreement called for Steinbrenner to acknowledge wrongdoing, become a minority owner, forgo any possible litigation and agree to a lifetime ban on even discussing the Yankees with the new managing partner...