Word: friendships
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Siegfried Buschmann, chief executive officer of the Michigan-based Budd Company, said the donation carried less political meaning than good will. Buschmann said it was the company's way of recognizing friendship and good market relations between Germany and the United States...
...German-American friendship is a decisive prerequisite for European and American managing to cope in union with the tasks of the future," Kohl said. "Europe will remain America's closest partner...
...nationalities nor those of the economy. I think the West should assist the Soviet Union in this process. Of course, we have to do it in a reasonable, businesslike way; after all, we are talking about a proud country. But we have to do it in the spirit of friendship...
...Lithuanian President Vytautas Landsbergis, whom he calls the "musician" (that was in fact Landsbergis' initial profession, but Gorbachev uses the term scathingly to imply a bumbling amateurism in politics). In summitry, however, the Soviet President's motto could be the Russian proverb "Sluzhba sluzhboi, druzhba druzhboi" (Business is business, friendship is friendship). If the two happen to coincide, so much the better, but one cannot do business only with friends...
...with gusto. Clean-plate man. Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger eyed him across the State Dining Room and thought the Russian looked remarkably serene given his troubles back home. Other Soviet experts listened to Gorbachev's long toast of muted optimism, almost a plea for true friendship, and sensed that he was a little less confident than on his Washington visit in 1987. Showtime is over, and a political animal like Gorbachev has a hard time descending to the boiler room where the work must be done...