Word: agreements
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Barak to achieve a settlement with the Palestinians before February, when he faces a tough reelection battle, together with Arafat's fear of having to deal with a right-wing government. Mixing these desires and fears together, some Americans and Europeans feel, may lead to some kind of framework agreement...
Looming large after this season is the October expiration date of the collective bargaining agreement. There is no way that over half of the owners can put their names on the dotted line of a system that allows the Yankees, Mets, Dodgers, Orioles, Braves, Red Sox and now the Rangers to spend them in oblivion. These smaller markets cannot permit themselves to be a de facto minor league operation for the big clubs, developing talent until they become available free agents. Yes, it's possible for a team like Oakland to compete, but GM Billy Beane has been nothing short...
...hour or so, during which you could see a consensus developing as, network by network, analysts hit on SCOTUS passages that more or less put the kibosh on further recounts. Which is not to say there wasn't plenty of room for interpretation. By 11 or so, there was agreement that it was all but over. Or that it wasn't! By just past 11, MSNBC was, at least on and off, calling George W. Bush the "President-elect." Or he wasn't! Maybe Al Gore would wait to answer. Or he was on the verge of conceding tonight...
Once they get a little sleep, Europe's leaders may realize that the agreement that capped their marathon summit in Nice may actually make the European Union even more unwieldy than it already is. Negotiators from E.U. member states agreed on a series of compromises early Monday in an 18-hour negotiating session following four days of talks. Member states clashed bitterly over how power will be apportioned in the Union, now that it plans to increase its membership from 15 to 28 states...
...outcome may be best parsed by the reactions of the various players. The smaller eastern European states that have been waiting on the doorstep are thrilled - their European "citizenship" will be granted on an equal footing with current members (Poland, for example, managed to win agreement that it would have the same number of votes as Spain, based on the equivalence in population size), and the summit also indicated that the door will be open to some of them as early as 2003. Among the current member states, some of the smaller nations were happy at holding back the designs...