Word: partner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...each other to make transfers easier, and flight schedules are coordinated. But staff and planes are not joined, and the airlines usually do not share profits or losses. In some cases, the feeder sports a new logo, and its flight attendants wear uniforms that match those of the larger partner...
Wanda: Most of them you would probably dismiss as inspirational, hardhearted one. Married People: Staying Together in the Age of Divorce says you must accept change and your partner's limitations, that there is no formula, no single recipe for a successful marriage...
...ways you can chop through the male ice. One of the best is to say "I know that my personality is hard on you." Rapid meltage occurs so regularly that the author calls the sentence "the magic words." She also recommends a verbal exercise for expressing resentment. One partner says, "I resent that you . . ." and then expresses the complaint. The other then responds with three set comments: "Thank you for sharing that. Your saying so may not change my behavior. I'm not going to defend myself...
...jets carried out their mission, Peres had adversaries of a different kind to confront at his regular Sunday Cabinet meeting: hard-line members of the Likud bloc, the other major partner in his national unity government. Likud Cabinet members, led by Deputy Prime Minister David Levy and Minister for Industry and Trade Ariel Sharon, pounced on Peres. They charged that his U.N. speech violated a Labor-Likud policy that opposes an international Middle East peace conference. Unless Peres offered "clarifications," Levy and Sharon threatened that Likud would bolt the government. Likud Leader and Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir and Minister Without...
...especially since recent polls show his party well ahead of Likud, 38% to 24%. Whether or not there is a genuine start to peace talks between Israel and Jordan in the next few weeks or months, Peres will be sorely tempted to find a way to encourage his coalition partner to topple the government and force elections. Otherwise, under the national unity coalition agreement, he must turn over the Prime Minister's job to Shamir in October. But in the meantime, Peres plans to do nothing that would divert him from nailing down the talks with Hussein...