bilateralism
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Bilateral agreements often create special terms for specific goods traded between two countries.
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New Zealand has long maintained a warm relationship with the United States, but few measures of bilateralism are as meaningful as the one that occurred on Thursday.
From Time • Jan. 3, 2014
Associated with bilateralism is the beginning of cephalization, the evolution of a concentration of nervous tissues and sensory organs in the head of the organism, which is where the organism first encounters its environment.
From Textbooks • Apr. 25, 2013
And although the movement's freeze resolutions call for "bilateralism," the daunting difficulties implicit in U.S.-Soviet negotiations are rarely given more than glancing, wishful consideration.
From Time Magazine Archive
The 123 agreements signed among 23 nations which were planning the International Trade Organization add up to more barter and bilateralism, and, probably, to a reduced flow of goods from country to country.
From Time Magazine Archive
But, most awkwardly, the opening snarl reminded everybody of the ubiquitous bilateralism that Geneva was supposed to suppress�in favor of freer multilateral trade in a world atmosphere of multilateral confidence.
From Time Magazine Archive
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