If Iran abides by the terms of the nuclear deal that call for inspections and a reduction in its nuclear infrastructure, economic sanctions in place since the Revolution in 1979 could begin to lift early next year.
This so-called "end of diplomacy" has confirmed for me what I have suspected all along: The Bush administration's attempts at diplomacy in the United Nations and its call for inspections have been nothing but a pretext and a sham.
In 1998, after bricks fell from a Madison Avenue office building, the city passed a regulation known as Local Law 11, calling for inspection of all facades over six stories.
As Mr. Tichenor thought about his answer, tourists of all complexions gawked from the sidelines, and an audience of immigrant activists let their T-shirts do the talking — "Legalize the Irish" and "I Love Immigrant N.Y". They sat on the same benches where years ago anxious immigrants waited to be called for inspection.
To address concerns about unsafe buildings, government officials and industry leaders called for inspections to ensure the structural integrity of the country's 5,000 garment factories.
The treaty, known as the Chemical Weapons Convention of 1997, was approved by the Senate only last year and calls for inspections of private American chemical companies.
Today, the governor called for inspections to ensure that the state does not have another bridge of the same type, according to The Star Tribune of Minneapolis.
North Korea angrily rejected today American calls for inspections of its suspected weapons of mass destruction, and it threatened to take unspecified "necessary countermeasures".
Even the less expansive bill that Mr. Fisher would like to see pass this year, calling for inspections of harnesses and ropes, might have saved Ms. Miskell's life, Mr. Fisher said.
The stabilizers on the MD-80 series of planes -- the kind of aircraft used on Flight 261 -- were the subject of a Federal Aviation Administration directive last May calling for inspections of possible corrosion, though whether that is relevant to this accident is not known.
