Word: relationship
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...medium. While television and newspapers give you a glimpse of the news, TIME digests it all, then tells you what happened, in a framework that goes beyond the clutter to make sense of the world. Thanks in part to the clout of our 29 million readers and the unique relationship we have with them, the magazine has unparalleled access to the people who shape the news. Raisa Gorbachev, in Washington last week, pronounced herself a regular reader...
Nitze was an early supporter of Jimmy Carter for President. But their relationship turned sour when Nitze gave Carter a hair-raising briefing on the Soviet threat in Plains, Ga., in July 1976. Recalling that meeting, the former President told TIME, "Nitze was typically know-it-all. He was arrogant and inflexible. His own ideas were sacred to him. He didn't seem to listen to others, and he had a doomsday approach." Carter barred him from consideration for a senior post...
...strongman is not Namphy, but Colonel Jean-Claude Paul, commander of an infantry battalion that includes more than 700 soldiers and armed civilians. The officer claims that without Paul's cooperation, military and paramilitary forces could not have aborted the balloting. Paul is known to have a close working relationship with Claude Raymond, a former general whose presidential campaign was crushed when the electoral council disqualified twelve candidates, citing the new constitution's widely popular ten-year ban on Duvalierists seeking public office...
That judgment seems excessive. The INF treaty offers proof that a man one can talk to is a man one can deal with -- at least some of the time. In an upbeat press conference at week's end, Reagan said an "entirely different relationship" had now been established between himself and Gorbachev. To place too much significance on the wonders that can come from more amiable relations and personal rapport would be foolish and would dangerously ignore the vicissitudes of Soviet-American relations since World War II. Yet to dismiss the opportunity created by the vigorous Soviet leader who came...
...higher union wages, and would be at the mercy of the union if a strike or walkout were ever called. Union negotiations with management would restrict possiblities for individuals to distinguish themselves, so a union would hurt workers too. Employee efficiency would drop once union wage scales lessened the relationship between performance...