Word: coexist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...including Harvard Government Professor Nadav Safran) who helped him research the book call Yasir Arafat to account for his statement to Carter that "the PLO has never advocated the annihilation of Israel." A quick scan of the organization's charter, which rejects the notion that a Palestinian state can coexist with a Jewish one, would have refused this statement in spirit, if not in letter...
...question that has vexed the world for decades. Perhaps a better question is: What other country could it have been? The Germans have long been able to hold two opposing ideas in mind and remain untroubled by their mutual exclusivity. Only in Germany could Weimar and Buchenwald coexist, each denying the other's nature. "I wish and ask that our rulers who have Jewish subjects exercise a sharp mercy toward these wretched people," wrote Luther in 1543. "They must act like a good physician who, when gangrene has set in, proceeds without mercy to cut, saw and burn flesh, veins...
...boasted about its better technology and never worked to make its machines compatible with Big Blue's. But in a shift last week Apple changed its strategy from Blue busting to detente with IBM. Conceding that many firms will rely partially on IBM equipment, Apple has decided it must coexist by devising both software and hardware adapters that will give its machines the ability to communicate with IBM's gear. "We recognize we have to adjust to IBM's world," said Sculley, "because they're not going to adjust to ours...
...almost certainly go now that Regan is in a position to boss him around. While the recent vacancies at the White House conceivably could give United Nations Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick a shot at becoming Reagan's in-house foreign policy adviser, insiders doubt that such a strong personality could coexist with Regan. Predicts one White House aide: "If somebody like Kirkpatrick is brought in here and tries to carve out an empire of her own, she'll find herself in the ultimate tong war." Regan has already hinted privately that he would fight any Kirkpatrick move into a White House...
Zhao Jingleca, a former Nieman Fellow from the People's Republic of China, predicted that the systems of communism and capitalism will increasingly allow each other to coexist. For example, Zhao said, the Chinese government is planning to establish new capitalist cities favoring foreign investors...