Word: mutually
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
United pilots argue that the proposal could cause troubles in the cockpit. Joseph Leroy, a 727 captain, says the two-tier system would bring "great dissension" because people would be getting different pay for exactly the same work. Says he: "The cockpit depends on mutual respect and trust. We cannot afford that kind of trouble." The pilots also cite a long list of wage and benefit concessions they have made over the past several years. Finally, the pilots point to the airline's 1984 operating earnings of $564 million. It was United's most profitable year ever...
...Cooke's compatriots are so self-critical. Indeed, Crapanzano begins his study by explaining the rift within the white community, which separates the Afrikaners from their neighbors of English descent. So profound is this mutual resentment that many Afrikaners championed Hitler during World War II rather than support what they considered a British cause. Conversely, some English speakers will drive miles out of their way rather than patronize an Afrikaner store...
...because it insists upon self-sacrifice. Members find themselves paying attention to other sufferers. Meetings stress togetherness and constantly reinforce the principle that self-pity and guilt over alcoholism are destructive. "It's a feeling that you've finally arrived and have found a home," says one A.A. member. "Mutual support is the whole thing...
...Problem: a deterioration in Soviet-American relations. Cause: a lack of "understanding" between the two leaderships. Solution: a summit with Gorbachev. -- Problem: the threat of nuclear war. Cause: traditional deterrence, which relies on the suicide pact of Mutual Assured Destruction. Solution: render offensive nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete with the Strategic Defense Initiative...
...success in economic diplomacy. Instead, he departed from Bonn for the wreath-laying ceremony smarting from a fresh setback. His 2 1/2 days of discussions in the West German capital with the leaders of six other major industrial powers were always polite and often were even marked by effusive mutual compliments; no one wanted to add a public squabble about economics to the uproar over Bitburg. But there was no disguising the fact that French President Francois Mitterrand blocked Reagan from getting what he most wanted from the summit, the eleventh in a series devoted primarily to economic affairs. Said...