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In the past there were various suggestions in the framework of financial and other agreements to benefit with Iran. But Iran interpreted those suggestions in a mistaken way and deceived the international community.

The fact is Qatar, Etihad, Emirates, Singapore, Garuda, all of the three Chinese airlines, Air New Zealand - the fact is that international aviation relies very much upon agreements between nation-states, and it is not an area in which you have free market operations.

But, we have had the debate in our country now for a number of years as to whether or not free trade agreements are good for economic growth and economic opportunity in creating jobs and lifting people out of poverty.

Our thinking behind these agreements is that we want all jobs in General Motors to be good jobs.

There's no question that Stalin broke the agreements made at Yalta completely about elections that were supposed to be held immediately in Poland, and Eastern Europe was plunged into slavery as a consequence.

We have exhausted all of our diplomatic effort to get the Iraqis to comply with their own agreements and with international law. Given that... we have got to force them to comply, and we are doing so militarily.

From solar to electric cars, from geothermal to reconfiguring the grid, the scale of investment needed in green technologies in order to meet whatever agreements on emissions reductions are finally agreed will be immense.

Now, given the experience that we have had thus far, with our subsequent trade agreements with NAFTA and others, you would think that with our experience of job loss that we have had there that when you find yourself in a hole that you might stop digging.

You do not export democracy through the Defense Department or the Defense Secretary. You do it through trade agreements, through the Department of Commerce and favorable agreements with our friends and neighbors across the globe.

The question of feasibility, the question of cost, the question of including partners elsewhere in the world, the question of the effect of this project on arms agreements - all these issues are in discussion.

The economy is governed through cartel agreements and monopoly. The attorney general is the one who's controlling funds. There is no free business in Georgia.

Both peoples, both nations, deserve a nation-state of their own. Palestinians, if they wish so, will go to the Palestinian state; Jews, if they so wish, can go to the Jewish state. And we'll have to have security and demilitarization agreements between us.

Countries with higher levels of gender equality have higher economic growth. Companies with more women on their boards have higher returns. Peace agreements that include women are more successful. Parliaments with more women take up a wider range of issues - including health, education, anti-discrimination, and child support.

Credit card agreements run as long as 30 pages, and it's 30 pages of largely incomprehensible text.

To open up new markets and create American jobs, we need to make global bilateral free trade agreements a priority as they were under the Clinton administration.

Not only must we fight to end disastrous unfettered free trade agreements with China, Mexico, and other low wage countries, we must fight to fundamentally rewrite our trade agreements so that American products, not jobs, are our number one export.

We are preparing agreements with Americans and Europeans which will allow the creation of a single global navigation system in the future.

We are pleased to confirm ... that indeed some progress was tentatively made on various important issues. We are not in a position to provide further details of the agreements ... because they still need to be fleshed out and confirmed by higher levels on both sides.

We believe that the extensions of our existing agreements and the two new collaborations that we entered into during 2005 provide further validation of our technology and commercial potential. Our goal is to continue to leverage our discovery and development capabilities by establishing additional collaborations with market leading companies seeking to create a competitive advantage for their products.

There are currently no negotiations, no agreements and no deals between us, We talk with everybody, including the New York Stock Exchange, all the time about possible arrangements.

We started and are about to finish negotiating free trade agreements

There is no question that these agreements represent a major step backwards for our union, ... We made these agreements only because it is painfully obvious that the results of bankruptcy proceedings would have been far worse. The company has been provided with everything it needs to survive. We can only hope that they will not squander the opportunity our members have provided them.

Until we reach and ratify collective bargaining agreements with United to address the effect of this merger on employees, it is not in anyone's interest for this transaction to go forward, ... The failure of United to provide written job protection dramatically increases the possibility of a strike by members of the Machinists union at United Airlines.

We're going to first and foremost start working with customers to commercialize the technology, that's the first priority, and to the extent that we can find companies in complementary markets, who don't compete with us head to head, we may look at licensing agreements with them.

When we announced agreements with foreign strategic investors, it was made clear that these are subject to regulatory approval. Currently, the approval process is proceeding normally.

We have some agreements with Costco, but we don't have a signed lease agreement.

We've been in negotiations, as you know, right through the night and at 6:17 this morning, he brought down the gavel on a set of agreements that may well save the planet.

We're actually working on an agreement with Korea right now, so students who want to go there will be able to. We want to get as many agreements as we can so students who want to have a different experience and not just go to Britain or Ireland, are able to do that.

We hope to reach agreements on the direction of future policies and issue a message demonstrating our resolve to resolutely continue the fight against terrorism.

We've signed agreements with all of them. I think they're all pretty much happy campers at this point. When we couldn't give them an answer, it was frustrating for them.

We have a partnership agreement and we have an agreement with the NBA that governs how we operate. Those agreements make sure that we do our business, and we're doing our business. It doesn't mean that every bit of business will be done as perfectly as we'd like to get done, but we'll get it done.

We are all at work, all the services are prepared for signing the necessary agreements in the remaining eight hours before the end of the day and the year.

This promotion is a reflection of the outstanding job Neil has done positioning Business Wire as truly the global leader in news distribution. He has built Business Wire's global distribution network to an unsurpassed level and has initiated myriad exclusive distribution agreements for the company throughout Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa.

The prime minister officially informed the Palestinians, as he did at the beginning of the negotiations, that nothing is agreed until everything has been agreed and therefore it is only signed agreements which are valid and binding.

The plaintiff dropped John Mack from the lawsuit after they understood the fact he played no role in authorizing the employment agreements that are the subject of the suit and didn't join the board until after the agreements were approved.

There are tracts of land that are going to be annexed by the city and are going to be developed by developers that we don't have mitigation agreements with. Part of our job is to continue to get agreements with all of those developers.

Let me tell you the basic fundamental principle by which we sit down and negotiate agreements with our friends: nobody wins unless we all win.

Major League Baseball looks forward to signing a lease so that Washington's baseball fans can enjoy watching their team in a new, state-of-the art stadium. We believe it is important for all parties to honor the terms of the agreements that were made.

Major League Baseball has not yet been provided with the filings made by the D.C. Sports & Entertainment Commission with the City Council last Friday, nor the text of the legislation passed by the Council last night. We are very concerned about what we heard during the debate, and we need to read the materials and the legislative language so we can determine whether they are consistent with the agreements between Major League Baseball and the city.

Sears did not file these agreements in court even though they told the customer who signed them they would.

Senator Kerry supported NAFTA and other trade agreements, ... I was against NAFTA and some of the trade agreements that he was for, and I think they've cost us millions of jobs. And I think voters need to see the difference in our views on what needs to be done about trade and how trade can work for America and American workers.

SEQuester(tm), the patented star product in this new generation of super filters, is intended for the genomics market of automated DNA sequencing laboratories. The product offers sizeable labor savings in the processing of DNA samples and fully enables robotic sequencers. We have discussed tentative agreements for brand alliances and manufacturing through well known distribution channels in the DNA products industry, an overall market worth an estimated U.S. $4 billion.

Olin's many accomplishments include negotiating on behalf of the US Government a number of financial market agreements with other countries. China is a very important market for AIG.

One of the assumptions that divides institutions of faith from those based on politics and international agreements is the automatic assumption that you have to teach me spirituality, that you have to give me a moral center, that you must convince me there's more to development than economic mechanisms.

One of the agreements signed today concerns supplementary arrangements on the facilities, utilities and services the Cambodian Government would provide for the premises of those Chambers; the other deals with safety and security arrangements.

No other country has the right to interfere in bilateral relations between China and other countries. In our view, agreements reached between China and other governments should be followed.

Permitting broadband video providers to avoid negotiating thousands of individual franchise agreements will bring more competition to markets faster, resulting in greater consumer choice and lower prices.

If we don't achieve this, but together with the Palestinians we reach a conclusion that the solution is a set of long-term interim agreements on most of the issues, this would be an important achievement,

I don't know what other stadium agreements say, but we're well aware of what our stadium agreement says -- that the TSA should pay for any costs related to security.

I am aware that peace requires painful compromises. Any agreements will be based on security,

But for peaceful purposes and when agreements can be worked out and when understandings can be had then what we are talking about is economic development opportunities, peaceful and useful opportunities... Then I think we are on the same page.

China has not lived up to any other trade agreements over the last decade... They don't have any compliance or enforcement.

China has not lived up to any other trade agreements over the last decade, ... They don't have any compliance or enforcement.

China has normal, conventional military trade with other countries which abides by China's policies and law and agreements China has signed.

For the United States, Malaysia represents a major commercial player - in the same league as France, Italy, Taiwan, and the Netherlands. In the past, we have spent too much time, effort, and resources negotiating agreements with small countries of little commercial significance.

If the board is uncomfortable with the financial situation, and if the board does not feel like these agreements will go forward, the board could vote to file Chapter 11 (Thursday).

We took this action because we are determined to achieve competitiveness for Delphi's core United States operations. We simply cannot afford to continue to be encumbered by high legacy issues and burdensome restrictions under current labor agreements that impair our ability to compete.

We're in the process of negotiating agreements that we think are going to be very significant.

We are extremely pleased to announce that Bridgestone/Firestone Inc. and the United Steelworkers of America have reached tentative agreements on three contracts covering 8,000 workers at nine facilities in eight states.

Today, ABC advised the guild that it intends to pay residuals to performers based on the videocassette formula -- a formula that does not apply to this new platform. ABC's actions are flatly inconsistent with our collective-bargaining agreements and with labor law obligations and fail to fairly compensate performers for the use of their work and images.

What you're going to say to a family that's lost their job because of bad trade agreements is, 'Don't worry, we've got a Washington committee that's studying this for you,'

Having attended the World Trade Organization's Ministerial meeting in Hong Kong a few weeks ago, we must make sure the many trade agreements now being actively negotiated by our government do not put U.S. sugar farmers at a disadvantage in the global marketplace. The world sugar market is the most distorted commodity market in the world, caused by the dumping of surplus sugar from countries that don't want to play by the same rules as U.S. farmers.

Having an endangered or candidate species on your property should be a good thing, something a landowner can be proud of, not something to avoid. With the administrative reforms we have made to the Endangered Species Act, such as safe harbor agreements, habitat conservation plans, and candidate conservation agreements with assurances, ranchers, timber companies and other landowners are able to participate in the conservation of at-risk species without the concern that their future plans may be delayed or halted.

We must have a full debate and votes on issues such as China's pitiful human rights record, China's brutal suppression of religious freedom, China's increasingly belligerent stance toward the Democratic Chinese government on Taiwan and China's unbroken record of violated agreements one after another on other matters. You can't trust them,

We look forward to continued cooperation with all of our unions and employee groups as we work to reach consensual agreements that will help us redesign our business and compete more effectively in the long term.

We made these agreements only because it is painfully obvious that the results of bankruptcy proceedings would have been far worse. The company has been provided with everything it needs to survive. We can only hope that they will not squander the opportunity our members have provided them.

I take great pride in the numerous accomplishments of our management team and the competence, drive and successes of our exploration group which is now being recognized by the growing number of Confidentiality Agreements that are now in place or under consideration. With the largest exploration undertaking on the African Continent, I look forward to more announcements of progress for our investors and potential industry partners.

It clearly contains conditions, restrictions and new provisions which go well beyond our previous agreements and raises a number of questions. We want to make sure that the kind of ballpark we agreed upon will be built, that it can be paid for as we have agreed.

I think the critical thing now is we're at the point where it's recognized, certainly by us, that the time is right, ... We have to get agreements finalized. We'll be pursuing agreements in Anaheim. We're going to work with both communities for an agreement.

It is clear that the White House has made a policy decision that we are going to honor our international agreements on ISS, and we are going to continue to fly the shuttle in order to launch the international components.

It is important to us to be able to keep working with the parties and try to do what we can diplomatically to calm the situation, get back to implementation of the agreements of the cease-fire.

People are concerned because they don't know what the agreements that NSI and the government came to are,

Overall, these new agreements and settlements have enabled United to reduce its non-fuel cost per available seat mile (cost per available seat mile ex-fuel) by approximately 22% during the three years while in bankruptcy.

Relevant agreements are in the process of being signed one by one, with some of them still under negotiation.

Our partners are negatively affected by the activities of those who compete unfairly by either selling illegal software and components or abusing agreements that other partners abide by. These dishonest resellers sell products at minimal costs, undercutting the business of legitimate resellers.

Patent battles have become a strong catalyst for mergers, reducing competition in various domains. The largest corporations, with gigantic patent portfolios, routinely enter into cross-licensing agreements with their largest competitors.

Such issues must be solved by realizing appropriate agreements fit with all concerning parties. It may take more time, effort and diplomatic skills, any issue may need a long time to reveal the truth about it.

That certainly is one dimension of the problem, ... There's a need to look very carefully at all of these fisheries agreements and foster those beneficial to African countries. But even that is not enough.

I think he (Selig) is probably better able to get support among owners, ... But they're trying to roll back 25 years of labor agreements in one round. I was telling them the best you can do is incremental improvement -Ê it's going to take a long time to straighten out this. They didn't want to hear that.

Microsoft did not object to Compaq's inclusion of the Netscape Navigator icon on the Presario desktop. Microsoft in no way limits Compaq in its license agreements from including Netscape's icon.

Win win agreements are tremendously liberating. But as the product of isolatedtechniques, they won't hold up. Even if you set them up in the beginning, there isno way to maintain them without personal integrity and a relationship of trust.

We have talked about what he wanted and the future of Wolf Pack football. If we can come to some agreements (today), and I have all the confidence in the world that we will, we will talk about what's going to happen with the remainder of his contract and the years to come.

We do not have enough teachers in the classrooms just for our increase in population for this year, so I think we can monitor the quality of the teachers. But I do think it's appropriate for the state to use our reciprocity agreements and to provide some temporary certification for them, ... We're seeing a dramatic increase by the way in the number of students. It doubled yesterday. I think it went from 1,000 to 2,400 in one day. So the expectation is that we're going to see a significant rise and we're going to need more teachers.

We do not have a situation where one side demands and the other side must stand at attention and give in to every single demand, ... Fulfilling the agreements requires that of both sides, working through the issues together to make progress.

While Delta remains open to reaching consensual agreements to achieve its necessary pilot cost reductions, the urgency of our financial situation requires that we move forward quickly.

We have to look at our agreements with Metro -- any kind of universal pass would involve them. It's kind of encouraging to hear that the students are interested in public transportation -- whatever happens, it's nice to know they want to be involved.

We have always said that this is part of our future and why we are restructuring and trying to lower our costs. And with this, we remain in compliance with our agreements and requirements of our agreement with Delta.

We couldn't be more pleased with the outcome of these discussions. We have been able to streamline and solidify our television presence for the long term through this alignment with two very strong network partners and an exclusive cable provider. These agreements will drive enormous value to sponsors. And it's a big win for our fans, because these television partners will provide the continuity and quality of coverage that will bring out the drama of the season-long FedEx Cup competition, while also positioning The Players Championship for maximum impact and fan interest.

We need to work together (with the U.S. government) to make trade agreements with China right for both of us,

We forged both of those agreements so that Abbott's vascular business will have some significant growth opportunities in either situation.

We are in intensified negotiations with union leaders in order to reach consensual agreements that reduce labor costs by $1.4 billion annually.

We are disappointed the court did not rule on Wal-Mart's fraud claims against Mr. Coughlin but instead upheld the release agreements on a technicality. We will file an amended complaint with additional evidence of fraud and fraudulent inducement.

We are delighted to be working in collaboration with Endeavor. This partnership represents a significant step toward an exciting future of expanded integration between technology vendors. As a result, this and future agreements should continue to deliver tangible improvements in the way library system vendors provide solutions and services to their customers.

(Tito) has been in the U.S. segment. Everything has been executed according to agreements prior to flight. I think everything is going fine in that regard.

We are actively at the bargaining table, and we already have agreements with one-third of our work force, and the terms are reasonable and fair. Obviously we're going to have similar agreements with ... these other unions.

We are pleased that utility commissions in Wyoming and Utah have approved the transaction. We appreciate the efforts of all parties to the proceedings working together to reach agreements that are fair and equitable to all stakeholders.

We are pleased that the court recognized the important role non-disclosure agreements play in protecting Microsoft's intellectual property - our most valuable asset.

We are on pace this year to have a trade deficit that is larger than $800 billion. We have never faced that before, but we continue to put forward trade agreements like these that leave us naked to competition that is neither free nor fair.

We plan to find out if these major league sports are going to do anything. If they give us the excuse that they're tied in to collective bargaining agreements and they can't do anything, ... then it's up to Congress to change it and make it the law of the land.

The only delay, ... is that when you are dealing with 50 states, 12 investment banks, a significant number of regulatory entities, simply getting sign-offs, drafting agreements on stray words takes a bit of time.