Word: friendlier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...official invitation, apparently in an attempt to improve relations. After a week of hesitation, William Clark, who was then National Security Adviser, and Deputy Secretary of State Kenneth Dam met Bishop for 40 minutes. They gave him another anti-Communist lecture and a warning: if he wanted to become friendlier with Washington, he had to ease his repressive rule and hold free elections...
...hardest rapes for women to report are "acquaintance rapes" or "date rapes," an increasingly common practice on college campuses. In these attacks, which represent about half of all reported rapes, the victim knows her assailant, sometimes just to say hello to and sometimes on a friendlier basis. That makes the victim fear people will regard her as guilty in some way. Says Martha Burt, research associate at the Urban Institute in Washington: "Women end up being their own worst punishers...
...summit brings a show of unity, and the Soviets adopt a friendlier tone...
...officials cautioned that the Harriman-Andropov session was not all sweetness and light. Indeed, it started out on a decidedly tense note, with Andropov lambasting the Reagan Administration for its aggressive attitude toward Communism, its arms control policies and other areas of bilateral tension. But Andropov was friendlier in an exchange with Harriman about the Soviet translator. Said Harriman, who had met the translator with previous Soviet leaders: "I've known this man such a long time, I hope these past associations don't bother you." Andropov laughed and replied, "No problem for me. Don't worry...
LABOUR MANAGEMENT RELATIONS have never been one of the friendlier aspects of American life. But even by the contentious standards of boss-worker struggles in our society this year's negotiations between the University and during hall workers represented by Local 26 of the International Hotel. Restaurant. Institutional Employees and Bartenders Union ranks as a genuine knock-down drag-out. Indeed there really haven't been any negotiations at all between Local 26 president Domenic M. Bozzotto and Harvard chief labour negotiator Edward W. Powers. As the workers contract approaches its June 19 expiration date, the two men have spent...