Word: cordiality
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...Cabinet portfolios. Among those shifted were a number of ministers identified with efforts to "Canadianize" ownership of industry. The Prime Minister had an unusual private chat with 21 top U.S. businessmen who were invited to Ottawa to discuss the local investment climate. The meeting was cordial, and, said First National Bank of Boston Chairman Richard Hill afterward, "we had a good explanation of why we are the way we are. We learned...
...also warned Kenyatta that, if he did not take the group's advice, they might "take other measures available to us which would have a more direct effect and which would not be as cordial as this note...
Dickens and Thackeray warred warily for years-as only competing authors can-over implied slights and suggested injuries. But this feud also disintegrated in conciliatory mutters and a handshake. So it goes too often. Even the Hatfields and the McCoys are said to be on cordial terms these days. Who knows but that in the dank, unhealthy future lies the collective rapprochement of Lillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy, Diana Trilling, Truman Capote, Gore Vidal and Norman Mailer-all hugging wildly or nodding demurely in disgusting displays of propriety? One can hardly rely on anything...
Admittedly Reagan has at least two good reasons to encourage cordial relations between the U.S. and the Philippines. Two important U.S. military bases are located on the Philippines, and, the Philippines is a haven for a wide variety of American business enterprises...
President Reagan will be given a genuinely cordial welcome by his six fellow heads of state and government when he greets them at the annual economic summit meeting in Versailles. They warm to his friendly manner and they like the great country he represents, but when the greetings are over they will not allow him as much latitude as they did at last year's meeting. He had then been in office for only six months: his new Administration needed time to play itself in. Some of the Western leaders deliberately muted their doubts, and the theme music throughout...