Word: mutually
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...intervention." But he adds that "we have to have constant communications, action and reaction, until both sides have a clear perception of how the other side stands. I don't think it means you have to go around saber rattling or missile rattling. It's to our mutual interest to reach an agreement on nuclear arms and to find a way to live on this planet together." Muskie may soon be talking to the Soviets; plans are being discussed for a meeting with Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in Vienna...
...which, by an act of self-doubt or self-transcendence, these same skeptical colleagues are bale to see as the possible vehicle of a powerful truth. Professors often fail to rise to this standard of judgement out of prejudice, mean-mindedness, and the narcosis induced by membership in a mutual admiration society. But they also fail out of a kind of hypocrisy and despair. They want to suppress the painful awareness of the element of arbitrariness in their lifelong devotion to some particular mode of thought. They are unable to imagine their own discipline, in the here...
...Middle East problem may be a resolution of Palestinian grievances, but the lock on this problem is recognition of Israel as a sovereign state. If the lock and key come together, they may discover the mutual benefits that can arise from choosing to be complements rather than antagonists...
Some political experts predicted that the Soviets would take a carrot-and-stick approach to the allies, combining promises of new mutual benefits that would follow from a continuation of détente with warnings of what might befall the allies if they pursue Washington's "hostile" course. In a number of Western capitals, in fact, Soviet diplomats were privately promoting possible peace talks between Afghanistan and its immediate neighbors, Pakistan and Iran, and the possible creation of a "security zone" for the Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf...
...poor and frustrated in a region overripe with lust and repression: "What I had once seen as the condition of being female, I now saw as female and Southern. I perceived my mother, grandmothers, sister, daughters-and all the women whose roots I shared-as netted in one mutual silken bondage. Together, we were trapped in a morass of Spanish moss, Bible Belt guilt, and the pressures of a patriarchy stronger than in any other part of the country...