Word: mutual
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Arms control agreements, followed by mutual reductions in both superpowers' nuclear arsenals and finally nuclear disarmament, are the only practical ways to defuse the threat of nuclear war, both panelists agreed...
Patricia A. Graham, dean of the Graduate Schoolof Education, said the benefit from thefellowships would be mutual, combining theteachers' practical experience with more detachedforms of educational theory...
...twelve-member European Community pulled back from the brink of a major food war last week. After two months of intensive negotiations, the two sides reached an agreement in Brussels to lift mutual restrictions on some $1 billion worth of goods. Among other things, the E.C. concessions would lower tariffs on U.S. citrus products, almonds and other nuts, while the U.S. would shrink duties or raise limits on E.C. exports of anchovies, olive oil, paprika and cheeses...
...1980s by Richard von Weizsacker, who was then West Berlin's mayor and is today West Germany's Federal President. Von Weizsacker became the first West Berlin mayor to meet with Erich Honecker, East Germany's Communist Party leader. Small signs of cooperation began to emerge on areas of mutual concern like waste disposal and pollution. Although the almost daily contacts are still conducted on an unofficial basis, the numbing silence of the early 1960s has ended. "The present climate is good," says West Berlin Senator Rupert Scholz. "One Berlin is Communist, the other is not. But when we speak...
None of this makes much practical sense, says Serpell, a research associate in animal behavior at the University of Cambridge. To appreciate his view of human-animal relations, it is necessary to face a tangle of mutual benefits and glaring paradoxes. Why, for example, should one little piggy be indulged as an intelligent pet while another, equally alert, is abstracted as pork- belly futures? Humans are, of course, aggressive carnivores with unusual powers of rationalization. They are also unpredictable in their attachments. Serpell tells of a Texas hairdresser whose four-week-old daughter was killed by the family Rottweiler...