Word: mutuals
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...million more in aid for Israel in fiscal 1983 than Reagan had requested. Still, the U.S. appears at least to be contemplating putting some new pressure on Israel. By describing the Israelis last week as an "occupying force" in Lebanon, Reagan was making an oblique reference to the Mutual Defense Assistance Agreement, which prohibits the use of U.S.-supplied weapons in offensive operations. The fact that he decided to drop the hint at all shows just how impatient the President has become...
These dual roles are closely interrelated. Devaluing the mutual support and empowerment which a strong community of women can provide by referring to social events as "tea parties" is offensive. Dismissing legitimate issues of concern to women as the bitching of radical feminists is dangerous...
...Fontainebleau, but at the "social" invitation of Borders, who stood him up. Yes, he promised Borders over the phone that he would act the next day, but the supposed code was a straightforward discussion of letters he planned to write urging reinstatement of a suspended lawyer who was a mutual friend. And yes, he issued the $845,000 order, but only to comply with two recent appeals court rulings requiring that action. Hastings also offered a parade of 50 witnesses, including three judges who testified to his integrity. Borders, concluded the defense, was simply engaged in the time-honored legal...
CONTINUING THE fine tradition of Ntozake Shange and Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor is a Black woman writing about Black women's collective and unique experiences, mutual understandings, hostilities and rapport. But as in those authors' works, a metaphor for the world of Everyman lies within and between the lines...
...Americans, balks at the idea that desirable policy can be effected through morally questionable means. Yet one lesson modern politics offers is that good causes--like rural electrification or civil rights for Blacks--frequently are not converted into government action until their proponents adopt the methods of compromise and mutual advantage that their opponents have used all along. Lyndon Johnson may have connived with George and Herman Brown to win Federal contracts and finance political campaigns, but the result of the half-legal dams built by Brown & Root was electric power and flood control for the beleaguered farmers...