Word: friendlier
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...seems, the mergermakers are in a mood to back off from deals born in hostility. This year's corporate marriages will not be as big or as exciting. They will also be between less disparate companies in similar industries. That could lead to friendlier arrangements and so reduce the need for lances, maces and battle-axes. Firm handshakes between reasonable people could make the white knight obsolete...
...retiring for reasons of health, to be replaced by his senior deputy, Wu Xueqian, China experts took a closer look at Huang's seemingly unexceptional remarks. Inevitably, there was speculation that Huang might have exceeded his instructions in Moscow or that the Peking leadership was retreating from its friendlier stance toward the Soviets. Still, analysts in Peking and Washington doubted that the 69-year-old Huang, who is known to have been ill, would have been ousted for pausing too long to talk with Andropov on the Kremlin receiving line...
Backround #2; James Dean--After James Dean left Fairmount, he went to UCLA and then to New York to try to make an acting career New York in the '50s was friendlier to actors. There were lots of theaters, and television (not yet abstracted to Los Angeles) was serving as a new outlet. Dean joined the ranks of young actors at Strassburg's Actor's Studio and began getting small parts in televised plays. All of these shows were live...
...loved Atlantic City," she says sadly. Also at the Montpelier are Mildred Locke, 60, and Bill Joblin, 64, who are dating but have separate rooms. Through a tragic coincidence, both their spouses died of leukemia, and since they had known each other before, it seemed natural that they become friendlier...
...come out here are strange sometimes--they're very into being at Harvard and they think that being there makes them special or something," Jordan says. "While Harvard guys might be fun for a few weeks, it is generally the MIT guys who call back and who are friendlier...