Word: mutualize
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When the U.S. was faced with a new global threat 60 years ago, the expansionism of Soviet communism, its leaders responded with an awesome burst of creativity. Among the institutions they launched were the World Bank, the Marshall Plan and, most important, the mutual-defense pact and military alliance NATO...
...that type of creative and bold thinking. What would George Marshall and Dean Acheson be doing now? At the top of their list, I suspect, would be forging a new version of NATO. They might call it MATO: the Mideast Antiterrorism Organization, a military, police, intelligence and security mutual-defense alliance between the West and our moderate allies in the Middle East...
...departure--"a mutual agreement between him and the board," according to a Gap spokesperson--marks a low point in the history of a brand that not so long ago epitomized smart, affordable fashion. Named for "the gap in the market it hoped to fill," the Gap had something for everyone. You got your khakis there; your grandmother got her cardigans; Sharon Stone got her outfit for the Oscars. So what went wrong...
While Simon was recovering from his bereavement, he met Actress Marsha Mason at an audition for The Good Doctor. The mutual attraction was immediate. He married her 2½ weeks after they met, "And that was with one postponement," he adds. Simon encountered little resistance to the abrupt romance from Joan's mother Helen Bairn or daughters Ellen, then 16, and Nancy, then 10. Nancy explains: "We responded to Marsha right away. She was warm and funny, and we needed to become a family again...
...feel numb. And I know you wouldn't approve of that. All your life you have struggled to encourage both Turks and Armenians to shake off the mutual numbness in their hearts so that they can start feeling each other's emotions and hearing each other's words...