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...style but not in substance. Both Brandt and Schmidt have pursued policies more independent from Washington than either Adenauer or Erhard. For example, harsh words were exchanged between Bonn and Washington during the 1973 Arab-Israeli conflict. On the one had, Brandt was irritated by Washington's failure to consult its Allies during the conflict; on the other hand, Washington criticized West European refusal to provide the American airlift with logistical support. Washington added that developments in the Middle East concerned the security of the Atlantic Alliance, and that the Europeans, certainly the Germans, should unquestioningly support United States policy...
...week's end Ford declared his intention to consult all convention delegates, alternates and major Republican officeholders throughout the nation on their choices for a running mate. The gesture will engender a widespread feeling of participation, but in the end the decision will be made by Ford and his inner circle...
...Fritz says I never make a decision without consulting him. He's right. I consult -and then do what I want to." When the Mondales decided to buy a dog, the Senator said okay, so long as it was small, short-haired and male. Joan came home with a female collie...
Studying the nature of man, Locke wrote, leads to the discovery of what God has willed governments to be. "The state of nature," he said, "has a law to govern it, winch obliges everyone: and reason, winch is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions." (This grouping of life, liberty and material wealth is fundamental to Locke, who also declared that "government has no other end but the preservation of property." Similar pronouncements have often appeared...
...styles described in Legros's L'Art de la Coëffure des Dames Françoises had become de rigueur for all the best heads in Europe. But with the tastemaker gone, faddism has flourished-so much so that European ladies of fashion can now consult a 39-volume behemoth that illustrates no fewer than 3,774 current hair styles, many of them preposterous variations on the once decorous pompadour...