Word: mutuality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...origin of the caper dates back to 1972, when Vesco fled the U.S. after being indicted on charges of looting $224 million from Investors' Overseas Services, a mutual fund based in Geneva. Almost immediately, he began trying to persuade the Department of Justice to drop the case. He even contributed $200,000 to Richard Nixon's 1972 re-election committee, but to no avail...
...newcomer at the local hotel who has overdrawn his credit and is foppish, imperious and curious. Actually, Ivan Alexandrovich Khlestakov (Max Wright) is a petty clerk who has gone broke gambling. When the mayor approaches him, Khlestakov assumes that he is about to be thrown into jail. As the mutual misconceptions multiply, the fun flies like...
Direct debiting. Though Visa and Master Charge cards have traditionally been issued only by commercial banks, other lending institutions are preparing to jump into the field. A mutual savings bank in Washington State has issued a card that directly debits a customer's savings account for the amount he charges. Some 60 banks are now issuing Visa cards that debit directly against a cardholder's checking account...
...they stroll through the streets of Rome, she holding fondly on to his arm. Then Author Simone de Beauvoir, 70, and Philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, 73, sit and sip aperitifs at an outdoor cafe and dine in their favorite restaurants in the Piazza Navona. The Parisian couple's mutual devotion during 49 years of intimacy is nearly matched by their attachment to Rome-where they have spent part of every summer for the past 25 years. "We have no work plans at all right now," says Beauvoir. "We're just enjoying our vacation." As a friend describes...
...Round Table, chronicling their legendary exploits, the magical interventions of Merlin and the quest for the Holy Grail. But his treatment of the romances between Tristram and Isold, Launcelot and Guinevere reads like a medieval version of Couples. Querulous and selfabsorbed, the lovers are made to suffer the mutual incomprehension of male chauvinists and radical feminists. "Being a woman," the author says of Guinevere, "she could not understand honor and justice, for they were invented by men." The code of chivalry is resurrected in the form of propaganda. Berger is given to writing didactic speeches, and his digressions about good...