The United States and Iraq began negotiating the agreement this year but have not publicly discussed its contents except in vague terms.

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On 20% of direct questions, he answered in impossibly vague terms.

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The DOJ would have sole discretion as to whether KPMG was following the vague terms of the agreement and could reopen the prosecution at any time.

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Mr Simon tended to be dismissive of such vague human terms.

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This kind of equipment-for-oil compensation deal -- predicated on necessarily vague and speculative terms to spare Moscow the problem of immediate, hard currency payments -- is altogether too easily translated into "debt forgiveness" in the future.

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Questions sometimes are vague or use too narrowly defined terms, and interrogators frequently ask compound or inarticulate questions and fail to follow up imprecise answers.

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Meanwhile the terms of the new accord are vague.

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But part of the transition's challenge has been implementing the terms of the security document with its vague and convoluted language.

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While Cook was being vague, Intel was beating iTV to the punch, at least in terms of announcing a new TV service with a fair amount of details.

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