Word: relationships
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...relationship between Roosevelt and Marshall was not always easy, as this stylishly written book makes clear. To find out what schemes the sometimes impetuous President was cooking up with Winston Churchill, Marshall often had to ask Britain's chief military representative in Washington. He would then protest loudly, putting out a restraining hand that benefited both the President and the country. In his own way each man was a genius without whom the war would have been even longer and more terrible...
...deal with an authoritarian regime, but they considered it necessary from a geostrategic viewpoint. We have gone through a difficult period when we had to negotiate a new agreement on a different footing. The former regime ((of General Francisco Franco)) posed no problem for the U.S., but that comfortable relationship was lost. Now we have one of mutual acceptance and respect...
...much more daring attitude toward the debt problem is vital. North American banks have been far too rigid. There should be not only a North Atlantic relationship between Europe and the U.S. but also a triangular one between Europe, the U.S. and Latin America. This has never been properly understood...
...uses mathematical models to study the behavior of an economy. "Every time you open a newspaper and see an analysis of economic trends," said Assar Lindbeck, chairman of the economics- prize committee, "it is based on Haavelmo's econometric theories." Haavelmo's key contribution was to show that the relationship between such factors as income and spending was far more complex than had been thought, since those factors affect one another and the rest of the economy. For example, he demonstrated that an economist could not gauge the impact of a change in tax rates on consumer spending without using...
German dissenters have moved to center stage, but lack leadership and a clear agenda. -- Shedding Communism, Hungary's ruling party hopes to survive. -- Look! Up in the sky! Glasnost goes bonkers! -- Spanish Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez talks about his relationship with...