Yet many Democrats and a handful of isolationist Republicans seem intent on scuttling these pacts.
The United States should reduce the number of arms control pacts being simultaneously negotiated.
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Discussions at the summit also focused on at least three free trade pacts in the region.
Companies are tied to one another in intricate networks of cross-shareholdings and shareholder pacts.
Congressman Brad Ellsworth, a more conservative Democrat in the Bayh mold, has also voted for free-trade pacts.
Thailand recently signed a free-trade agreement with Australia, and is now negotiating similar pacts with America and India.
Government contracts are now available online, and companies that bid for projects are asked to sign integrity pacts.
Members of those groups meanwhile argue about possible electoral pacts, the constitution, and the role of the army.
One unproven method is to make people sign pacts promising not to harm themselves before the next appointment.
What price will trade skeptics demand, to get free trade pacts through Congress if they are to get through?
Beijing has been using these pacts as part of its push for a more global role for the yuan.
The snags highlight common problems with private pacts between developers and neighborhood coalitions.
The public associates it with gridlock, and is happiest when centrists in each party make pacts with each other.
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Lengthy peace talks culminated in pacts between Congo, Rwanda and Uganda, and a power-sharing deal with their leading rebel proxies.
In Jakarta the candidates are busy making coalition deals and secret pacts to win votes, unencumbered by any serious debate.
At first glance, the 20-year pacts signed with American Airlines, Delta and Continental seem perfectly reasonable deals between consenting adults.
And many point out that it is unclear exactly which pacts North Korea has abandoned as some were never properly implemented.
The difference, says Idealab Chair Bill Gross, is that eWallet doesn't depend on mutual e-commerce pacts among Web merchants to work.
In December 2011, the department banned the companies from doing so, saying the terms of their 3G licenses don't allow such pacts.
There's a lot of skepticism about free trade pacts among the Democrats.
Presidents have relied on their fast-track Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) to negotiate pacts that Congress can ratify or reject but not amend.
It is also looking at currency pacts with Hong Kong and Japan.
All denied making pacts, but only one, so far, has stepped down.
Regional pacts may help lock in free-market reforms, particularly in developing countries.
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START, conventional forces and chemical arms pacts, for example, will stipulate that the required destructions of weapons be carried out over protracted periods.
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In December 2011, the department asked the companies to stop the services, saying the terms of their 3G licenses don't allow such pacts.
Across the country, politicians are responding accordingly, and that is clouding prospects for congressional approval of pending free-trade pacts with South Korea and Colombia.
And at a conference in Montevideo, Uruguay's capital, earlier this month, Bank officials gave a cautious welcome to regional trade pacts such as Mercosur.
The venture's prices are controlled under the pacts with the authorities.
Detroit automakers are locked in negotiations with the large and powerful United Autoworkers union over contracts and pacts that are set to expire September 14.
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