Word: partnering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...straightforward food-for-sex deal among foraging primates. Compatibility was not a big issue, nor of course was there any tension over who would control the remote. Today, however, a spouse is expected to be not only a co-provider and mate, but a co-parent, financial partner, romantic love object, best friend, fitness adviser, home repair-person and scintillating companion through the wasteland of Sunday afternoons. This is, rationally speaking, more than any one spouse can provide...
...that the Palestinians are out in front, Syria may want to play catch-up without seeming to be following a Palestinian lead. "We hope this agreement with the Palestinians will not alienate the others," says Beilin, one of the plan's architects. "We are ready to proceed with every partner...
...massive cooperation in space. The Russians will be permitted to launch U.S. satellites; the U.S. will pay hundreds of millions of dollars to put experiments aboard the Russian space station Mir, where they will be tended by American astronauts; and the U.S. will bring Russia on as a full partner in its own space-station effort...
...Israeli free-lance peacemakers had worked their Palestinian connections before in private attempts to jump-start the peace process. None had succeeded. In the hotel Kriah said he was interested in broad bilateral talks with Israeli officials. So was Hirschfeld. That was exciting -- but hardly promising. Recalls Hirschfeld's partner Ron Pundak, a history research fellow: "Nobody believed that out of this funny meeting in London, involving an academic and someone who is not a high-ranking politician, something big would happen...
...Gore's roving mandate, however, that differentiates him from past Vice Presidents. While Clinton may exaggerate in calling Gore "a full partner," the President often looks to him first and to greatest effect. (Initially, the press anointed the First Lady as a kind of co-President, but her involvement in health-care reform has kept her more narrowly focused than Gore.) Clinton often ends a meeting by turning to Gore and asking him what he thinks, giving him the opportunity to deliver the closing argument. Then they often walk out of the room together, heads nearly touching, giving Gore that...