Word: concessioner
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Back in Washington, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger was insisting that talks could not be held without compensation and a formal apology from Moscow. But at the Soviet officers' club in Potsdam, and later at the U.S. military liaison mission house, U.S. and Soviet generals were quietly trying to sort out...
Other firms have already introduced 8-mm machines, without much success. Analysts estimate that Kodak's camcorder, first brought out in 1984, has sold only about 10,000 units. The new format is a big gamble for Sony that could take several years to pay off. It may also be...
The President's lapse is not just moral but historical. At first, he declared that he would put the past behind him: reopen no wounds, apportion no blame, visit no death camp. But one cannot pretend that the world began on V-E day 1945. One has to ask the...
At first there was little hope of a Reagan reversal. When Vice President George Bush sat in for Reagan at a meeting with Democratic members of the Senate Finance Committee, Spark Matsunaga of Hawaii asked if a convalescent Reagan might be open to the idea of a tax hike. Replied...
The case of PetroChina is one where moral concerns clearly override the University’s legitimate desire to avoid having its investment decisions held hostage to a potential slew of causes. PetroChina’s parent company, China National Petroleum Company (CNPC), is a leading partner with the Sudanese...