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  • Back at the White House, a disembodied voice radioed, "We've IDed Geronimo," referring to the agreed-upon code name for America's most wanted enemy.

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2011

  • Instead, the SEC is negotiating with the companies an agreed-upon statement of what happened, according to people familiar with the situation.

    The Science of a Settlement Jean Eaglesham 2011

  • "I'd like the deal a whole lot better if it were all for cash," Mr. Buffett said at the annual meeting of Berkshire investors, in response to a shareholder question about the agreed-upon acquisition.

    Buffett Criticizes Johnson & Johnson Deal Shira Ovide 2011

  • On a more philosophic level, the increased circulation of doctored images on the Internet, a space where images do not readily disappear, only muddles the difficult attempt to arrive at an agreed-upon version of events.

    Debatable 'Evidence' Richard B. Woodward 2011

  • To try to ensure compliance, the program requires that patients take their medication in the presence of the village nurse or an agreed-upon community supervisor.

    India Faces New Front in Battle Against TB Geeta Anand 2012

  • Converting the response of the instrument to some kind of agreed-upon units is called calibration.

    Measurement ewillett 2009

  • Those basic rules -- don't hit other people, play by agreed-upon rules, don't take other people's stuff, don't envy other people's material possessions, keep your promises, tell the truth -- these work.

    Getting Ricardo Wrong, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • But if she wants to sound presidential, then sticking to what really matters as Palin puts it without throwing in little cracks about a universally agreed-upon problem would be a lot less, in a word, distracting.

    Palin's milk joke goes sour 2011

  • By taking a market view on the Australian dollar, and by doing his own research, Mr. Demeter figures he can continue to hedge his risks—and like Google even profit—by locking in agreed-upon rates for the currency months out.

    Small-Businesses Try Hand at Forex Andrew J. Johnson 2011

  • I believe I read someplace that while as a budget bill the Stimulus package arguably cannot be filibustered, because of agreed-upon PayGo rules the bill nonetheless does need 60 votes, because it increased spending without reducing other spending or increasing revenue to compensate (obviously, it has to increase spending in this way to qualify as a stimulus).

    Matthew Yglesias » Andrew Sullivan Thinks I Live in Manhattan 2009

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