One reason for the general apathy is the repressive effect of the agreements that the Palestinian Authority has signed with Israel.
"Taking into account the specific conditions of the market, the popularity of HB ice creams, HB's strength in the market and the specific features of the products, the effect of the agreements as a whole is to restrict competition in the market," the court said in a statement.
§ 416.2130 Effect of the agreement and responsibilities of States.
In fact, the effect of the agreement on aggregate output and employment in the United States "would likely be negligible," according to a federal study, largely because the United States economy is so much larger than that of South Korea.
The last time the dollar fell so low against the yen was in 1995, amid the lingering effect of the agreement known as the Plaza Accord a decade earlier, when the world's leading economies agreed on a common policy to weaken the dollar and tackle America's trade deficit.
In his ruling, Tagliabue found that, although the Rams-Vermeil agreement last February did not prohibit Vermeil from seeking a coaching position with another club in 2000 or 2001, "the clear purpose and effect of the agreement was that Vermeil would remain retired from coaching through the 2001 season".
On the financial balance sheet of the negotiations, James Heath, the BBC's policy director, argued that the effect of the agreement would be "flat cash funding" for BBC content and services over the first five years of period, after implementing a programme of £1.6 bn of cumulative savings over the current charter period by 2016/17.
"While the real effect of the agreement after it goes into effect is still uncertain, it is a simple sign that the international society is much more open to alter economic and political behavior to control climate change, which is by all means positive," said Feng Qi, executive director of the School of Environmental and Sustainability Sciences at Kean University in New Jersey.
So the United Nations officials who convened the conference in Königswinter and nursed it to its successful conclusion can be forgiven some self-congratulation, and even optimism.The immediate effect of the agreement will be to install in Kabul, probably on December 22nd, an interim executive council, or cabinet, of 30 members.
Now an "open skies" deal between the two, which will allow any airline from either side of the Atlantic to fly to any intercontinental destination from March 2008, is shaking up Europe's airline industry.One effect of the agreement, which will be signed in Washington, DC, on April 30th, is to make takeovers more likely.
Although he does not say so, Mr Uribe, who was a close friend of George Bush, may also have been worried that Barack Obama's administration would walk away from Colombia.But Colombia's desire to play up the deterrent effect of the agreement has backfired.
