Word: mutually
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Just to the west of the factories, the money from Mr. Duke's enterprise created one of the finest Southern universities. Still further west lies the most recent of Durham's big institutions, the black-owned North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, in a tall modern building which is by far the most impressive structure in the city...
North Carolina Mutual has created a couple of black millionaires and numerous black executives in the city, and serves as the symbolic focus for one of the most progressive and best organized black communities in the South. Downtown in Durham, Chisholm buttons are frequent; even now, a month before the primary, the New York Congresswoman has made several appearances in the state...
...than West Germany's two foremost political rivals. Only the week before, Opposition Leader Rainer Barzel had tried and failed by a bare margin of two votes to overthrow Chancellor Willy Brandt. But over beer and in countless hurried conferences, the two men were seeking to find a mutual way out of a severe parliamentary crisis that threatened to have grave repercussions far beyond the borders of the Federal Republic...
...football game reminds Mutual-Fund Manager Denver Milliken of the stock market: anyone who hopes to succeed must have a plan. The lines that stock prices trace on a chart suggest to Milliken the curves of a woman's body -and, the reader suspects, vice versa. For Milliken, a 29-year-old fictional prototype of the "gunslingers" who rode high on Wall Street in the late '60s, the market is everything: father, mother, wife and mistress; food, drink and recreation...
Which makes him a rather dull fellow to be the protagonist of a novel. Accordingly, the author, a veteran financial reporter who now writes the New York Times daily stock market reports, has also written into his story a kind of primer on mutual-fund management. Sample advice: "Buy the stocks of dominant companies in small but growing industries with a low profile." Vartan also offers a collection of anecdotes about bulls and bears of the past, which his characters recount with the fervor of Hot Stove League fanatics swapping memories about Willie Mays' catches or Curt Flood...