Quarry. an open-cut operation for mining coal, ores, and nonmetallic materials. In the coal industry the quarry is called a pit, and in ore mining it is sometimes referred to as a mine. The word âquarryâ is also used for the excavations created by open-cut operations.
About the AG. Master Settlement Agreement. Under the Master Settlement Agreement, seven tobacco companies agreed to change the way they market tobacco products and to pay the states an estimated $206 billion.
After three years of negotiations, during a summit meeting between Nixon and Brezhnev, on 26 May 1972, the talks were concluded with the signing of two basic SALT I documents: 1  an Interim Agreement on certain measures limiting strategic offensive arms; and. 2  the ABM Treaty on the limitation of strategic defensive systems.