Word: mutual
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...well, for the firm would profit from a dazzling image of social responsibility. While not all real-life businessmen would agree with that kind of thinking, it has spawned success for a small but rapidly growing group of socially conscious investment funds. About half a dozen of these mutual funds % are winning customers by promising to put money into the stocks or other securities of only those companies that meet stringent standards on issues ranging from pollution control to foreign investments. Many of the funds are now especially hot because they severely restrict investment in companies that have ties with...
...Mutual lack of trust, not substantive disagreements, blocked the agreement, said Kalb. "Each proclaimed to the other, `You're not serious.' I think they're playing the greatest poker game in history...
...academy said that through his study of this new area of economics, Buchanan "has transferred the concept of gain derived from mutual exchange between individuals to the realm of political decision-making...
...most important statements Gorbachev has made during his first two years in power concern common security. "The character of present-day weapons," he told the 27th Soviet Communist Party Congress, "leaves a country with no hope of safeguarding itself solely with military and technical means . . . Security can only be mutual . . . for the fears and anxieties of the nuclear age generate unpredictability in politics and concrete actions...
...addition, the Soviets still have a substantial advantage in conventional-troop strength in Europe. After 13 years of bargaining in Vienna over Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions, there are signs of progress, but the imbalance is not soon to be rectified. Thus NATO must still rely on medium- and short-range nuclear missiles to deter a Soviet attack...