Even if you did know, both governments have been really hush-hush about the Beyond the Border agreement that is said to make us more safe.
Similarly, Christy Clark's Liberal government in British Columbia has commended Harper and Obama for signing the Beyond the Border agreement showing that this isn't a partisan thing between Canada's two oldest political parties.
Last month, both Rwanda and Uganda agreed to what they called goodwill gestures beyond the agreement toward ending their involvement in the civil war, which has ensnared six other nations and several rebel groups.
But in a Dec. 18 meeting with Bear Stearns executives at their headquarters on Madison Avenue, Mayor Bloomberg said the city would not go beyond the agreement it struck in 1997 to provide the company with $75 million in tax breaks and other incentives in return for its remaining in the city, building a new headquarters on Madison Avenue and promising to add thousands of new jobs.
Beyond the agreement on that large trend, however, there is debate over where we are headed, over how best to encourage growth and over how to confront the recovery's worrisome unevenness.
Beyond the agreement at the governmental level, Paris ought to be celebrated for another, more modest deal -- it is one that may surprise us with its power to make an even bigger difference in the long run.
Unfortunately, though, they have not been able to force this influence to go beyond the agreement and now face the power of Khamenei's public insistence that dealings with the United States do not go beyond the nuclear realm, while his principlist supporters in the judiciary and Revolutionary Guard detain dual citizens in order to prevent any further détente.
Obviously, we needed such a procedure because there is no gold standard for gut feelings in general practice and we wanted to extend our reference beyond the agreement of the 5 family physicians who were part of the project group.
Beyond this, the agreement enables talent agencies to open the door for the first time to investors, who could range from advertising agencies to Internet companies.
Beyond their practical impact, the agreements have substantial political value in that they open a promising new channel of diplomacy, analysts said.
