Word: relationship
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...best to be direct. "I think we should stop seeing each other" is better than "We...er...should...uh..split up...maybe." And there's no need to act as if you're cancelling a business account. Make it clear that the relationship was important. Say something like: "I will never forget what were some of the happiest days of my life...
...pursued by questions about Iran-contra, Ed Meese, the trade-bill veto and the Administration's lackluster civil rights record. In each case, the Vice President swallowed hard and forcefully stuck with the boss. That can't continue indefinitely. "Reagan knows that Bush must eventually cement his own relationship with the American people," says Bush Political Director Rich Bond. "But like a lot of high-wire acts, timing is everything...
Prestowitz does not suggest that the U.S. copy Japan's symbiotic relationship between government and industry. But he argues that Washington must offer limited support and protection to crucial industries. "At issue is not pure free trade or total protectionism," he writes, since "we have never had and never will have either one; but rather what combination of free and managed trade we will have." He suggests, for example, that military research and development might be redirected toward commercial applications that could lead to increased exports. Some of Prestowitz's prescriptions are vague and put too much faith in Government...
Reminiscing about his father, Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr., a noted historian and champion of social and economic history, the younger Schlesinger told a crowd of more than 300 that "doctrinaire social history paradoxically runs the risk of severing history's relationship to society" and "makes history static." He said that his father would have been pleased with the predominance of social historians today, but at the same time never forgot the "indispensibility" of studying wars, politics and diplomacy...
...Kremlin's welcome mat came out after President Reagan's summit conference with Gorbachev in Washington last December. Besides reaching agreement on arms control, the two leaders promised to improve the business relationship between their countries. Earlier this month Commerce Secretary William Verity led a delegation of Administration officials to Moscow, where U.S. and Soviet leaders signed an agreement to explore mutual opportunities in such industries as food processing and construction equipment...