détente – "Shareholders searching for détente in the battle between Yahoo and Microsoft are unlikely to find it in Microsoft’s new proposal to buy Yahoo’s search business, one the Internet company swiftly rejected on Saturday."

Détente is a French term, meaning a relaxing or easing; the term has been used in international politics since the early 1970s.

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