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...rewarding the Soviets for ceasing activities they never should have begun seems less important to him than trading the embargo's end for further moderations in Moscow's behavior. Linking U.S. actions to future Soviet concessions is what the game is all about. "Give away something unilaterally without a quid pro quo?" says Baker...
...that he be pardoned, and there was no quid pro quo for his release," he said. "Mr. Hasenfus' situation was a small part of my conversation with Ortega, perhaps 15 minutes of a 4-and-a-half-hour conversation...
...troublesome signal--one which I believe has characterized this Administration and which will be its historical legacy as well--that is, a mean-spirited, unstatesman-like response to those who are perceived to be antagonists. That Harvard University has determined that an honorary degree would not be an appropriate quid pro quo for the President's appearance is to be applauded. No other President has used a 50-year convocation for such personal aggrandizement...
...high court can sidestep the issue this time by remanding the case for trial on whether Vinson was forced to work in a "sexually hostile environment." The first harassment cases in the late 1970s focused on quid pro quo claims that employees were asked to provide sex to keep their jobs or get better ones. Recently courts have followed the lead of the EEOC and ruled that an atmosphere of sexual aggression, even without economic injury, constitutes harassment...
...ironic nobility; about them a Brit can feel at once guilty and nostalgic. Unless, of course, one has to deal with their sons and daughters on the streets of London. Now the Indo-Paks' manner is seen as rude and abrupt, their intellectual energy devoted to turning a quick quid, and in areas like South London there is a new caste system, with the immigrants running things and the working-class white "natives" in their employ. The Pakistanis and , the punks are inverting colonialism and reinventing capitalism. The empire has come home, and on both sides, proximity breeds contempt...