But almost immediately there were signs both sides were violating its terms, even with hundreds of unarmed U.N. monitors in the country.
The opportunity for the next 20 years is in consumer products and healthcare, but there are almost no attractive public stocks in those area.
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Data compiled by the BBC shows there are more than 100, 930 social homes in Essex, but there are almost half again, 47, 233 people, on housing waiting lists.
We probably could still go to arbitration but there's almost no point in that.
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"The last tuba player and the band haven't necessarily been on the same stand, but now we're almost there, " says Toyota's Convis.
The report added that recycling levels have remained at almost 51% but there was a fall in the amount of waste going to landfill.
But Mr Gonzales is almost certainly there for the duration.
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There are now almost a million foreigners working in Britain, but there are also around 1.8m British people unemployed.
All of that is amazing, but there's something almost intangible about The Rite of Spring that drew me under its spell.
The trip may still be almost two months away but there has been plenty of debate over which style the team will play.
In Plattsmouth, complaints about the cow came in to the police department almost nightly, but officials figured there was little they could do but chase her away.
It's built of basically the same material as the Droid, but there's something almost kind of "taut" about the phone, where when you thwack it with a finger it resounds like a drum.
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But there is a deeper, almost existential problem looming for the Lib Dems.
But in the main countries there is almost no progress on the micro-economic reform needed to boost sagging competitiveness, argues Joyce Chang of J.
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But the dishwasher was almost full, and there was no way to judge which plates might have been used earlier that day and which had been there before.
The previous record price for an ounce of gold was achieved almost a month ago, but there is renewed interest in the yellow metal as a hedge against depreciating global currencies.
My wife has been disabled most of her life, but not realizing she was, she held jobs here and there at times, but not for long generally and almost always cooking.
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For every brand-name club played on the PGA and LPGA tours there are imitators that almost but not quite steal the design.
But, the FIS aside, there is almost total uniformity within the sport that skiing would benefit from the huge media interest any showdown would attract.
Last week, the First Minister Peter Robinson said the strategy paper was almost ready for publication, but he acknowledged there are three areas of disagreement between the parties.
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There were times when the idea of parting from his mother filled Aryeh Zelnik with sadness and shame, but there were other times when he almost looked forward to her decline and to the possibilities that would open up before him when she was taken out of the house.
The Titanic might have grabbed headlines as the world's most glamorous luxury liner, immortalized on the Silver Screen by Leonardo Di Caprio and Kate Winslet's love story in the Oscar-winning 1997 eponymous film, but there was another ship that was almost twice the weight, which did not sink, and she is still afloat, as a hotel.
But almost four years after the last recession started, there still has been no real recovery.
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Above ground, Moscow has changed almost beyond recognition, but in Bunker 42, there is still the fleeting scent of another era.
Mr Mackay agreed there the desire to have the living wage enshrined in the Sustainable Procurement Bill was felt almost completely across the chamber, but he said there must be legal certainty about securing this.
LightSquared, the new kid on the block, is planning an IPO but has almost no chance of success going forward (there has never been a wireless services wholesaler that has made money), and the smaller network operators are struggling for survival.
But if you eat (almost) anything in moderation, there's no harm.
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