reciprocity

New trade barriers on the European Union may emerge in three weeks' time based on "reciprocity".

“This lack of reciprocity is one source of our country’s large and persistent annual trade deficit in goods. Closed markets abroad reduce United States exports and open markets at home result in significant imports.”

So as I watched canary-yellow Canadian Super Scooper planes roar into Los Angeles to help douse the ungovernable firestorms threatening my home, my grieving Nova Scotian heart soared: reciprocity between old friends.

If upholding norms resulted in anything like reciprocity, i.e., if it would lead Republicans to follow suit, standing on principle might have merit.

"One of them is reciprocity, which suggests that through certain repeated actions, we might build trust and then cooperate."