Comcast already has similar pacts for streaming content with HBO, another part of Time Warner.
In the mid-19th century, they were demonic, with Liszt or Paganini making Faustian pacts for frightening powers.
Pfizer has similar pacts for Pharmacia's painkiller Celebrex and for Aricept, a drug for Alzheimer's disease from Eisai of Japan.
"Firms Rethink Lucrative Severance Pacts for Top Executives as Criticism Swells," read a headline in The Wall Street Journal in 1991.
It is now clear that American "humanitarian" intervention in Liberia and elsewhere in Africa will come at a price: United States military bases in Africa ("Pentagon Seeking New Access Pacts for Africa Bases," front page, July 5).
Haggling over the modest and obscure benefits program had tied up the trade pacts for months, pitting Democrats concerned about the impact of competition on American workers against Republicans eager to increase foreign trade but loath to increase federal spending on another aid program.
