Word: relationship
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Setting out to restore the "special relationship" between Britain and the U.S., Macmillan liked to remind everyone that his mother was an American. He established a close rapport with President Eisenhower and later with President John F. Kennedy, who called him frequently during the Cuban missile crisis of 1962. "I was a sort of son to Ike," Macmillan explained, "and it was the other way round with Kennedy...
Observers saw a close relationship between the students' call for democracy and the sluggish pace of Deng's economic reforms. The experiment is aimed at spurring productivity and raising efficiency by taking power from the bureaucrats and giving it to the peasants and local plant managers. The urban phase of the program, which began in late 1984, has raised overall productivity impressively, but has lately begun to falter. Just two weeks ago the government reported that industrial production costs are up and profits are declining. Deng's lieutenants blame the foot-dragging on entrenched, stubborn and sometimes powerful mid-level...
...near psychotic whose fevered outbursts ("How dare you mention Las Vegas in this house!") would be gag lines in any other TV show. Her "good" son Marc is fixated on movie cameras and tape recorders; Larry is convinced that nuclear war will break out before his college finals. The relationship between mother and sons has a creepy Oedipal ambiguity. Says Frances to Marc, ominously, as her murder plans start to jell: "You are the only man in the Schreuder family...
...relationship between Flaubert and Emma Bovary emerges as a passionate substitute for real life. "The one way of tolerating existence," he wrote, "is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy." In turn, Vargas Llosa pulls off a great escape by transforming criticism into a sensual romp. It is a delightful experience, for it is not often that an international man of letters admits to preferring pornography to science fiction and sentimental stories to horror tales. Perhaps even more daring is his avowal of old-fashioned formalism, of books "that are rigorously and symmetrically constructed, with a definite...
...rallies and press conferences during his five-day visit, Jackson attacked Japanese firms for ignoring minorities. He asserted that blacks in the U.S. own some 2 million Japanese cars but have fewer than five dealerships nationwide. If Japan's businesses do not enter into a "mutually respectful and beneficial relationship" with blacks, Hispanics and women, he told the top officials of Toyota, Sony and other companies, they too may face boycotts. Said Jackson: "I am here to announce that we have enough intelligence to support people who support...