Word: mutually
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Over the centuries, divisions between the two churches have been exacerbated by punitive excommunication, mutual persecution and outright religious war. The underlying theological differences have included such questions as the nature of the Eucharist (an issue covered in an important 1971 consensus) and the role of the priesthood. The commission's new agreement resolves some of the remaining differences by ignoring old controversies in favor of new and broader interpretations...
...never been a secret that some American reporters working abroad maintain symbiotic relationships with the Central Intelligence Agency. In the shared quest for fresh information, correspondents and CIA agents have been known to swap tips to their mutual benefit. Recently, the Washington Star-News revealed that some 40 U.S. journalists-mostly freelance writers and "stringers" who work part-time for one or more employers-have been on the CIA payroll as undercover informants. Some are full-time agents using journalism as a cover. Only five of the 40 were said to be regular staffers for large news organizations. Still...
Efficiency is the major gain of trial-evision. The lawyers and witnesses could get together at their mutual convenience. Some witnesses appearing in more than one trial were able to tape all their testimony at one session. While juries watched the televised evidence, the judge and attorneys tended to other business, including other trials...
Ostpolitik is the name for Brandt's master plan of negotiating treaties with all Warsaw Pact countries, for mutual renunciation of the use of force, and establishing normal diplomatic relations with them. Since his election as chancellor in 1969, he has successfully concluded treaties with the Soviet Union, Poland, and East Germany, although West and East Germany have yet to institute formal diplomatic relations. And at Brandt's suggestion, in the fall of 1971, the Allied powers signed an agreement guaranteeing the right of the West German government to represent the residents of West Berlin; the Soviet Union, of course...
...Mutual Distrust. The talks apparently did nothing to dispel the sense of mutual distrust that has long plagued Kissinger's relations with Japan. Both sides issued bland statements to the effect that Kissinger "understood Japan's serious predicament." But the phraseology was diplomatic euphemism. After Tanaka explained Japan's economic predicament, Kissinger's rather cold-nosed reply was that while he understood the situation, the state of the Japanese economy and what to do about it was not really his problem...