Word: benefitting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Enormous ideological and moral differences are at the root of the difficulties in relations with the Soviet Union. Nothing will make these differences disappear in the foreseeable future. However, we should aim to develop three types of relations: exchanges and contacts that benefit both sides, arms negotiations, and a high-level dialogue that will enable the participants to explain their intentions and so avoid misunderstandings...
...extract concessions from the U.A.W. at its unprofitable Rouge steelmaking operations, it announced plans to curtail production sharply. Four days later, the union accepted concessions, and the mill was kept open. When U.A.W. workers at Ford's Sheffield, Ala., aluminum-casting plant did not accept 50% wage and benefit cuts or the company's offer to sell them the plant, it was closed last June...
...Henry Kissinger know, nothing could be stranger than the intricate power struggles of real-life politics, except perhaps the convolutions of the prime-time TV soap Dynasty. Ford, 70, and Kissinger, 60, will make cameo appearances next week on the program. It was filmed at an actual charity benefit for the Children's Diabetes Foundation. During the big party scene, Ford and Wife Betty meet Blake and Krystle Carrington (John Forsythe and Linda Evans), and Kissinger exchanges greetings with Krystle's nemesis, Alexis (Joan Collins). Will Blake charm Jerry into a profitable business deal? Will the scheming Alexis...
...heart research continues, the ability to buy time improves. In the mid-1970s, the availability of beta blockers, a class of drugs that help reduce the burden on the heart, made it possible for certain patients to postpone or avoid surgery altogether. Patients may also benefit from the introduction in the U.S. two years ago of substances called calcium channel blockers, which can reduce blood pressure, relieve some types of angina and help the heart work more efficiently...
...especially in the air. Also, the "new strategic cooperation" between the US and Israel announced in Washington two weeks ago strengthened even further the alliance between the two nations. As the only reliable and genuinely legitimate government in the Mideast, Israel needs and deserves our help, and we can benefit from cooperation as well. Egypt and the Soviet Union give more cause for concern. Massive Soviet rearming of Syria after the Lebanese invasion should raise ominous questions for the Israelis and the West as to Russian intentions in the Middle East. And the chance of a change in Egypt...