Word: mutually
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Faced with Soviet expansion that culminated in the Berlin blockade and the allied airlift, the U.S., Canada and ten Western European nations signed the North Atlantic Treaty of mutual defense on April 4, 1949. Greece and Turkey joined in 1952, West Germany in 1955. During its 31 years, NATO has survived a number of crises and events that, like the current one, have shaded and changed Europe's views of the U.S., and vice versa...
...businesses from scratch, corporate control has passed increasingly from entrepreneurial proprietors to hired managers. Leading companies are no longer owned by the founders' families. The Rockefellers control less than 5% of Exxon, the parent of the empire John D. Rockefeller built; ownership has spread to 687,000 individuals, mutual funds and pension plans. Such broad ownership gives still more control to managers...
What follows is part fertility myth, part comedy of manners. The bride and groom are hardly thrilled at the prospect of this marriage made in heaven. They approach the pavilion magically erected for their nuptials with mutual dislike. She thinks he is a barbarian, he finds her too snobbish and ethereal. He has never faced women except as the conquering general, accepting the spoils of victory: "On their campaigns, when the army reached new territory, into his tent would be thrust some girl, or she was thrown at his feet...
...incidents following last Friday's gay dance raise the difficult and troublesome issue of violence caused by bigotry and the lack of mutual understanding between different segments of the Harvard community. The Crimson article avoided the dangerous extreme of sensationalizing the incident, yet it may have gone too far in downplaying the seriousness of the issue. In particular, the article understated the situation significantly by leaving out the following facts...
...always worked together throughout the years in presenting a united front in developing annual budgets, maintaining and expanding the Minority Admissions and Recruitment program in the face of cutbacks, and in working together on orientation and other activities. Admissions work has served as an important inter-cultural forum, cultivating mutual respect and strong working relationships between the respective Third World groups...