Word: relationship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Less than a year ago, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance described the connection between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia as a "special relationship." That is no longer so. Though the Carter Administration has been exceedingly slow to realize the depth of Saudi anger and bitterness over the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty, it is now obvious that the era of Saudi Arabia's almost total reliance on the U.S. has come to an end. Vance has acknowledged that there is now a "clear and sharp difference" between the foreign policies of the two countries...
...sale of the sophisticated F-15 was the subject of heated debate in the Senate last year. The Carter Administration was determined that the sale should go through, not only to assure the Saudis that Washington valued their friendship highly, but also as away of strengthening the military relationship between the two countries. Despite the latest rumors, Fahd insisted last week that his government still wants the American planes...
...play in the labor field that up to now has been largely neglected...meager contacts seem particularly striking when they are compared with the interchange that goes on regularly between the universities and the business community." (Labor and the American Community, p. 482). It is easy to understand this relationship when our money is used to support the most retrograde of American corporations...
...there is simply no hard evidence to support this concern. New York Attorney Ira Millstein, co-founder of the Columbia University Center for Law and Economic Studies, observed: "There are feelings about large mergers, there are emotions about large mergers. There is a suspicion about size and its relationship to the power and politics of society. But there is an almost total lack of responsible research in the area...
...eminent social theorist who through four decades of teaching at Harvard and dozens of scholarly works molded generations of sociologists; of a stroke; in Munich. Influenced by the German thinker Max Weber, Parsons attempted to construct logical categories into which he could fit every kind of social relationship. His theories, which played down conflict and tolerated inequality, were considered conservative and have been criticized as irrelevant. But Parsons took pride in preferring "more nearly pure research" to the trend toward relevance...