As a U.S. news report at the time said, "the dispute has come to epitomize an entrenched Chinese notion that terms of contracts can be altered at will". Although the McDonald's example is just one case, we saw many similar situations firsthand when we were, respectively, a wire service reporter and a business executive in Beijing.
One is that we were both too caught up in what we were respectively doing – we didn't spend all that much time together; the other, to be completely honest, is that I'm fairly unjudgmental and I found Bernard's capacity for pretty sharp putting-down of people he thought were stupid unacceptable..
For your readers' information, we are (respectively) a medical photographer at the St . Albans Naval Hospital a member of the Phoenix School of Design, a lumber industry executive, a literary agent, a grandmother and a student of aesthetic realism.... Which (may we add) has contributed honest hope to peoples' lives, and to the beauty of the world.
In the case of Chinese, Old Egyptian, and Sumerian, the basic linguistic units that we referred to as words were respectively, logograms, hieroglyphs, and logo-syllables.
But like the characters of Ed Norton and Brad Pitt in Fight Club, Mark and Arg represent who we aspire to be and who we actually are, respectively.
There is something of John Fowles in his style, in the liberties he gives himself to wander about as he likes, to dwell at any length that grips him or amuses him, serenely confident as he is that we will be, respectively, gripped and amused - and if not, we should go read other people's books.
They were, respectively, the running backs Doc Blanchard and Glenn Davis.
They were, respectively, Frederic Remington (1861-1909) and Charles M. Russell (1864-1926).
Their leaders were, respectively, Jules Sebastien Cesar Dumont d'Urville, James Clark Ross and Charles Wilkes.
Turnouts in Vermont and North Carolina were, respectively, 63 percent and 64percentt.
In China and India the numbers were respectively 64%and61%1%.
