Fearing a national revolt, the communist authorities yielded to the workers' principal demands, and on August 31 Wałęsa and Mieczysław Jagielski, Poland's first deputy premier, signed an agreement conceding to the workers the right to organize freely and independently.
"I tried to walk a fine line between acting lawfully and testifying falsely," Mr. Clinton said in this final consent agreement, conceding in his lawyer-vetted mea culpa that, yes, he had managed to cross the line.
The agreement had conceded far too much to Greece – even if its ultimate aim was the country's future membership of Nato and the EU, he said.
Greenland, Denmark, and the EU in June signed an agreement that conceded greater European control over scientific research and climate policies in Greenland in exchange for a €43 million (about $55 million) subsidy.
By the terms of the agreement, Gibson concedes that after traveling to Madagascar in 2008, it received a report concluding that "It is currently illegal to harvest or export ebony".
Insofar as it acknowledges that "conditions of poverty, marginalization, [and] weak institutional presence" have all contributed to the coca-growing phenomenon, the preliminary peace agreement tacitly concedes not only that supply-side drug policy has failed, but that it was reckless and overly punitive to start with.
"It's going to be difficult to reach agreement," Mr. Rendell conceded.
To comply with the disclosure required from the Project Merlin agreement, Barclays also conceded that five of its top managers had shared a payout of £110m.
In return for the Durban agreement, the EU conceded to developing country demands to continue the Kyoto protocol after its current emission-cutting targets expire next year.
As details of the proposed agreement emerged, Google conceded it would make "significant changes" to the way it operated in Europe and – breathing a provisional sigh of relief – said it was looking forward to finally resolving the matter.
It was the first time that Mr. Dunkel, the director of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, had conceded that an agreement was impossible before this date.
