Word: partnering
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...amount of economic reform can succeed without a massive influx of foreign aid. As Poland's foremost trading partner and a major creditor ($550 million in hard-currency loans since May), the Soviet Union is a logical source. Warsaw accordingly dispatched a delegation to Moscow to seek assistance and explain the strike agreements. Headed by First Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Jagielski, the man who negotiated the Gdansk accord, the Polish envoys met first with Soviet trade officials. Jagielski then held a private meeting with Mikhail Suslov, the Soviet Politburo's hard-lining ideologist; diplomats in Moscow had no doubt...
...acceptance speech. Shortly before Franklin D. Roosevelt took office, the two men lunched at Warm Springs, Ga., where Lippmann said: "The situation is critical, Franklin. You may have no alternative but to assume dictatorial powers." As the Depression worsened, Lippmann had lunch on Wall Street with a Morgan partner who urged him to advocate abandoning the gold standard. So Lippmann wrote the column, and a floundering stock market shot up. That very night Roosevelt told his advisers he was going off gold...
...best known is Premier-designate Zhao, who enjoys a national reputation for his innovations with free markets, bonuses and a relatively liberal system of local autonomy in Sichuan, China's most populous province. Wan Li, 64, former head of Anhui province-and, as it happens, a reputed bridge partner of Deng's-will become head of the state agricultural commission...
...Motors Corp. is that AMC was bailed out by the French government, not the American one. There is some truth to that. Earlier this year, AMC's banks refused to extend the company further credit, and the American firm had to turn to Renault, its French government-owned partner, for a $90 million loan. Eventually, Renault will...
...long ago, moviegoers knew, or cared about, only the big stars-Streisand and Newman, Fonda and Redford. Now the directors are often just as famous: Francis Coppola, Stanley Kubrick, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas. But who has heard of Reuben Cannon, Michael Fenton and Partner Jane Feinberg, Jennifer Shull, Lynn Stalmaster or Joyce Selznick? Almost 50,000 members of the Screen Actors Guild, that's who. For these are the casting directors, the silent powers who put the sparks into most of those stars way back when and who often mean the difference between a smash and a bust...