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• n  a written agreement between two states or sovereigns

• Last week his explanation sounded like something out of a fairy tale: "It the pact caused dismay in Tokyo .
• He insists the pact is flexible enough to allow short-term stimulus programs.
• A Massachusetts fishing town tries to understand why so many of its teenagers made a pact to get pregnant.

• treaty
• accord

News & Articles

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• Oakland teachers finally get 1-year pact
  Oakland teachers finally get 1-year pact After five years of bitter bargaining, Oakland teachers and district officials have ratified a one-year agreement that gives teachers an immediate 1.5 percent raise and a one-time bonus. Teachers and substitutes will get their raises on June 30, as well as the lump sum worth 2.35 percent of their base salary. For the past several years, schools have ...
  June 15, 2013 - San Francisco Chronicle
• EU gets deal on trans-Atlantic trade pact mandate
  EU gets deal on trans-Atlantic trade pact mandate Associated Press Copyright 2013 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 6:39 pm, Friday, June 14, 2013 LUXEMBOURG (AP) — The European Union worked around French objections on Friday to agree on a free trade negotiating mandate for sweeping talks with the United ...
  June 15, 2013 - Beaumont Enterprise
• Paris seeks cultural exception in EU-US trade pact
  Paris seeks cultural exception in EU-US trade pact Associated Press Copyright 2013 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 8:54 am, Friday, June 14, 2013 LUXEMBOURG (AP) — France told fellow members of the European Union on Friday that the movie and television industry must be kept out of hotly anticipated free ...
  June 15, 2013 - Beaumont Enterprise

Quotes

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• Michael Beasley in Tampabay.com
  We all grew up together, and we all grew up playing against each other and we all made a pact together that we would all be here,Beasley said. "Just to see it all fall into place and see it all happen is kind of crazy."
• Jean-Claude Trichet in Reuters
  Something happened a long time ago in Haiti and people might want to talk about it. They got together and swore a pact to the devil. They said we'll serve you if you get us free to the prince. True story but ever since they've been cursed by one... Pat Robertson http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Robertson&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHd6IgqFepuRFW7Ohaz_q5hn9nYOQ Raw Story http://www.google.com/url?q=http://rawstory.com/2009/2010/01/stewart-to-robertson-shut-your-pie-hole/&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFYhNrAWlhyGxWcqkDYUpu3fby2TA Jan 15, 2010 71600 95665 pact In the most severe cases of persistent non-compliance (countries not complying with stability pact rules), a limitation or suspension of voting rights should be considered. We are now at a stage in which we have to finalize new rules and...