Word: respective
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Thus we used it sparingly. Usually we spoke elliptically or wrote notes to one another. A colleague and I sometimes took a walk in the garden, even there whispering to each other because Willy Brandt's security people had warned us that the trees contained listening devices. Our respect for the KGB was such that our secretaries used manual typewriters brought from home lest the "telemetry" of electric machines be read by our solicitous hosts...
...settled before smaller issues like trade and people-to-people exchanges could be addressed. "Later on I saw you were right, and we played table tennis." This was more than a recitation of history and a disarming apology; it meant that there would be progress with respect to trade and exchanges at the summit. Mao, in short, had willed the visit to be a success...
...inane uproar over the troops in Cuba illuminates the confused state of our foreign policy, which lacks the stability and consistency that command worldwide respect. President Carter has shown prudence in his caution over angering the Soviets by refusing to agree to the linkage of the two issues. But his poor national rating has allowed Congress a free hand in determining America's foreign policy...
Freidan said she sees a new respect for jobs traditionally held by women, such as nurses and secretaries. This redefinition of women's roles suggests that some men envy rather than fear women, she said. "They're envious that women can have feelings and don't have the burdens that men have," she added...
...East, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, the mercurial visionary, and Israeli Premier Menachem Begin, the Talmudic legalist. Despite the glaringly obvious disparity in their temperaments, the awkward relationship between the two leaders that was so apparent at Camp David a year ago continues to grow into a sense of mutual respect and even affection...