Word: relationship
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...powerful unions won their colossal struggles with management and the government, a very different Japan would have emerged. Instead the backs of the unions were broken, the government and business began a symbiotic relationship and Japan Inc. was born...
Wherever Bush went, he heard quiet endorsement for his restrained attitude toward the Soviet Union. "Gorbachev makes it possible for us to move ahead," confided one of the Communists to Bush. "We appreciate your keeping a good relationship with him." It seemed, as Bush hurried along his route, that his hosts gained nerve and expressed not only their conviction that Communism was a botch but also their uncertainty about how to untangle their political and economic messes. "We are where you were in 1776," Hungary's party president, Rezso Nyers, told Bush. "We need a currency that is convertible...
...have been compared with both Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, both in scope of your subject matter and in your treatment of the psychology and ideas of your characters. What is your relationship to each of these two authors...
...uninteresting--way out of the conflicts she creates between her characters. Her supposedly unconventional protagonists select the most conventional of solutions. The novel would have been more interesting if Dinah had chosen not to take another lover, or if Piercy had established a more credible foundation for the relationship between Laurie and Jimmy...
...wonderful sense of place and the narrator's eye for details soon become monotonous. The affair the woman has with one of her teachers, and even her borderline incestuous relationship with her mother, are described so coldly, so myopically that it is difficult for the reader to understand or sympathize...