In a message read at Tuesday's ceremony, the French president, Jacques Chirac, said the arrangement "sealed a partnership with the world's most visited and well-known museum".
In 1973, when two Yankees left-handers, Mike Kekich and Fritz Peterson, made a hair-raising trade — swapping wives — the arrangement was sealed outside Allen's home, where the couples had attended a party.
Like Russia's earlier move to bolster the government of President Bashar al-Assad by deploying warplanes and tanks to a base near Latakia, Syria, the intelligence-sharing arrangement was sealed without notice to the United States.
The arrangement was sealed when Rainilaiarivony took Rasoherina as his bride and demoted his longtime spouse Rasoanalina to the status of second wife.
The 10-page plea agreement was sealed by Judge Raymond J. Dearie, but the arrangement suggested that prosecutors believe Mr. Zazi can be a valuable source of information.
The deals often come with, or are followed by, a financing arrangement: U.S. PolyMet Mining Corp ,for instance sealed an arrangement in January that involves Glencore buying shares with the right to convert the company's debt into equity.
Stop-and-start negotiations over the arrangement that was sealed Thursday had been under way for almost two years, with the Polish government reluctant to press the deal in the face of strong opposition — and retaliatory threats — from Moscow.
"I have had a number of situations where we've gone to management looking to do a deal and been stopped at the door until a compensation arrangement was signed, sealed and delivered," said a prominent lawyer in New York who spoke on condition of anonymity, for fear of losing clients.
The evidence of this is seen in continuing production of new designs for static seals, valve packings, reciprocating seal arrangements, rotary shaft lip seals and mechanical seals.
Would any government today invent such arrangements afresh and seal them with a royal charter?
