Condoleezza Rice, America's secretary of state, said that the previous arrangement should not be the basis for a lasting ceasefire.

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The authority has said it is now effectively ACL's banker, a move which allows ACL to pay off a previous loan arrangement with its existing bank.

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Previous leader Boris Yeltsin negotiated such an arrangement with Mr. Putin.

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While featuring the same keyboard arrangement and operating style made popular by previous ClassPad calculators, the fx-CP400 is also fitted with keys that slope down from bottom to top, which helps prevent input errors when pressing vertically arranged keys.

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Granted the USSR full membership and borrowing privileges in the new European Bank for Reconstruction and Development despite previous well-founded and formal American objections to such an arrangement on the grounds that it would divert critically needed resources from Eastern Europe to the USSR.

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Combined with previous deals for the Rose, Sugar and Orange Bowls, the arrangement would provide ESPN with rights to all games that are involved in the new post-season arrangement to determine a college football national champion.

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