Word: agreements
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...mood in Montreal this week was buoyant. Nobody seemed to be mourning the agreement...
Colorado squawfish A $590 million water project has been put on hold because it would threaten the survival of this outsize predator. The project would benefit the Ute Indians, who had been scheduled to receive water under a 1986 agreement with Washington...
...that day of economic union between the Federal Republic and the German Democratic Republic, an entire society will be transformed. After nearly a half-century of communism, East Germans are now living under West German rules on corporate and union activities, welfare and insurance. Although there is still no agreement on important details of the political and military future, the economic merger reflects a historic moment that until recently few people imagined they would ever live to see: the peaceful rejoining of Germany. Before long, the united country will take West Germany's official name, the Federal Republic of Germany...
...ozone agreement, signed by 59 nations at a conference in London (about 30 other nations were observers), was a historic improvement on the already tough Montreal Protocol of 1987. That pact called for a reduction by the end of the century in worldwide production of ozone-depleting CFCs and halons, man-made chemicals that allow ever increasing amounts of dangerous ultraviolet light to reach the earth's surface. But since Montreal, a consensus had been growing that mere limitation was not enough. All the participating nations agreed that both types of chemicals should be phased out almost entirely by century...
...silent majority of Quebeckers approved Meech Lake. For them it was a chance for constitutional peace, so we could tackle more directly problems of international economics, demography and the environment. No agreement can be 100% satisfactory, but it was a pragmatic approach...