Word: relationship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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White House approval of Schmidt's boa is not necessarily a harbinger of sweetness and light at Bonn. The personal relationship between Schmidt and Carter has been poor and has only recently begun to improve, and the West German offer to increase growth if the U.S. moves to solve its deficit problems will probably not be enough to satisfy Washington. The President, though, will have an unexpected new argument to present to the Chancellor. The biggest source of the U.S. trade deficit is not oil but industrial imports from West Germany and Japan (see chart). Department of Commerce figures...
...leaned forward, elbows on the table, head thrust forward. "The attitude of labor is one that causes me the most concern. The relationship between even the most dedicated Democratic Presidents and organized labor leaders has always been a rather stormy one." At this point the presidential reasonableness rather than the new defiance began to show. Labor Chief George Meany had treated him brusquely at their last meeting, but Carter did not refer to it. Instead, the Administration plans to try to work around the imperious A.F.L.-C.I.O. leader. Said Carter: "We have gotten some good response from the leaders...
...another of those seesaw weeks in U.S.-Soviet relations. First, Jimmy Carter spoke soothingly at a press conference of his "deep belief that the underlying relationship between ourselves and the Soviets is stable" and that he and Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev want "to have better friendship." Next, both governments calmly carried out a trade: the U.S. released two accused Soviet spies from jail in New Jersey, while the Soviets set free an American charged with currency violations in Moscow. But then Soviet authorities suddenly summoned two American reporters to a Moscow court and charged them with "denigrating the honor...
...from Day One of our sportswriter-athlete relationship it was always the same...
...years, I had been fascinated by the relationship of the Leader to Power, of the State to Force, of the Concept to Politics-and most recently of the Hero to his Circumstances. I would never again, after Kennedy, see any man as a hero...