What made the difference was Mr Carter's belated realisation that he had to apply the force of American power, putting forward his own compromise proposals, promising close friendship to the party that complied and threatening the loss of favour to the one that did not.Camp David may have been a diplomatic triumph, but it was an incomplete peace.
Republicans said he had staked much of his political capital and longtime friendships in the Legislature on the proposal.
Prince Paul, in the middle of cabinet crisis, offered a nonaggression pact and a declaration of friendship, but Hitler insisted on his proposals.
They are also dismayed by the seriousness of their adult children, Mary Pomfret (Candida Benson and Philip Wetherby Pete Ashmorere), who work in the same branch of the civil service and have struck up a sober friendship that gradually, somewhat unexcitingly, leads to a marriage proposal.
Maybe that unit won't survive intact after Bob's awkward proposal, but Bob and Joan may find a way to keep that friendship alive.
Since then, however, Russia has reiterated its strong objections to the Bush administration's missile defense proposals, as well as to NATO enlargement, and has signed a friendship treaty with China -- nicely characterized by one Russian commentator as "an act of friendship against America".
Mrs. Bryant refused the proposal, but a few days later said she would accept the stone as a friendship ring.
Proposals that have been defended along these lines mention property rights, security, autonomy, intimacy or friendship, democracy, liberty, dignity, or utility and economic value.
According to the proposal, a copy of which was obtained by The Times, the book will cover topics like work, friendship, travel, sex, love and mortality.
