Nike replaces Reebok, whose agreement is expiring.
They are seen as being on a par with the chief financial officer, get a say in decisions on pay and have the ear of the board, whose agreement is increasingly needed to remove them.
This is a reasonable assumption in order to describe situations in which there are two majority parties whose agreement is needed to make an appointment.
Equally, it is inconceivable that the French and the Germans, whose agreement, it is often forgotten, on the exchange rate and other matters is necessary if Britain is to join the euro, will be prepared to deal with Blair.
We would not normally encourage using the funnel-type plot as a means of picking out individuals whose discrepancies may be attributable to chance alone, but in this example one point lies so much further from the envelope than the rest that the corresponding rater warrants further investigation: rater 156, who rated 31 samples and whose agreement score is just 0.41.
And, behind the scenes, American soldiers have been negotiating with representatives of some insurgent groups, though what kind of deals are on offer remains murky.The constitutional drafting committee, which at first included only two Sunni Arabs among its 55 members, is now expected to have 15 of them as full members, whose agreement must be won before any document can be approved.
The reluctant coaches have an ally in Yankees Manager Joe Torre, whose agreement to be wired by Fox in 1997 led to the airing of an obscenity.
Brotto has recently proposed, to a group of three fellow panelists whose agreement will be a first step toward the A.P.A.'s approval, an elaborate diagnostic system for H.S.D.D. Instead of the current brevity, she suggests using a list of six criteria, ranging from the rarity of fantasy, as in the D.S.M.-IV, to being "not receptive to a partner's attempts to initiate".
When the history of recent education policy is written, a special chapter should be devoted to the saga of the Durand academy, whose funding agreement was terminated last month by the Department for Education.
As a result the Big Six became the Preliminary Committee of the Eight, whose first agreement was that the congress itself should be postponed to 1 November.
The survey was conducted by two experienced ophthalmologists whose diagnostic agreement was found to be robust.
