Word: mutually
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...accord between NATO and Russia, which clears the way for Moscow's former satellites to join the Western alliance, is the most significant foreign policy development since the collapse of the U.S.S.R. and has strategic consequences that will be with us for decades. Called the Founding Act on Mutual Relations, Cooperation and Security, the agreement will take the sting out of Russian anger that NATO expansion was going to happen whether Moscow liked it or not. Implemented properly, the pact will soothe, but diplomatic denials not withstanding, it still represents a crushing capitulation for Russia and a diplomatic triumph...
...have been put forward, several by Bruce Blair of the Brookings Institution, a leading expert on nuclear weapons. Missile nose cones, he suggests, could be replaced by large, blunt tips, or disabling pins could be inserted into rocket engines. Indeed, warheads could actually be removed from the missiles, under mutual inspection procedures. All of the steps could be reversed, but they would build in a safety valve of time, giving an opportunity to reflect...
Calling the Knowles report a "divisive strategy," the alumnae propose to meet with him "to develop alternative and more collegial plans which may, in the long run, provide greater mutual benefit...
...personally take issue with any of Hepps's statements, for I am a biracial woman who also happens to be Jewish. When my sisters and I were young, my mother, who is of Russian Jewish decent, and my father, who is a Seventh-Day Adventist from Jamaica, made the mutual decision to raise the three of us in the Jewish faith. I attended Hebrew school for years, and became a bat mitzvah at age 13. I continue to observe the Jewish holidays and consider Judaism to be a central aspect of my personal identity...
Perhaps my parents' mutual desire to raise me in the Jewish faith is an exception to the general trend of interfaith couples. I plan to raise my children with a strong sense of their Jewish heritage, for I know how meaningful religion has been in my life. At the same time, I hope they will develop a sense of their own unique cultural identity and will value each aspect of their diverse background. --Debra P. Hunter...