Mr. Rodriguez said he considered his living arrangements among the best in the city.
Morgan Stanley also agreed to amend policies on recruiting, account distribution and partnership arrangements, among others.
The Midwestern accord is modeled on similar regional carbon-reduction and energy-saving arrangements among Northeastern, Southwestern and West Coast states.
Federal officials said drug prices were determined by a complex process that involved discounts, rebates and other financial arrangements among drug manufacturers, wholesalers, pharmacists and insurers.
The disarray has been such that Germany's normally tight-knit political system -- marked by cozy arrangements among banks, industry and political parties -- has shown signs of unraveling.
Moves toward tighter apportionment rules are most fiercely resisted in Europe by countries with the most aggressively competitive corporate tax arrangements, among them Ireland, Britain and the Netherlands.
For now, ad hoc arrangements among the major intelligence services in Europe -- and with the United States -- seem likely to remain the status quo.
After 1936 Hansson sponsored an expansion of Sweden's defenses, refused Germany's offer of a nonaggression pact, and worked for cooperative security arrangements among the Scandinavian countries.
Germany itself feels like a secular Simultankirche, in which the relative strengths of the sects may change without disturbing the basic arrangements among them.
But he said the close arrangements among domestic companies have also meant that Japanese manufacturing suppliers have been less likely to sell to foreign corporations.
Europeans are clearly hooked on regional beer brands, but European antitrust regulators want to know whether this is a result of beer drinking traditions or of subtle cartel arrangements among breweries.
