Word: mutually
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...social phenomenon, AT&T's move is the most decisive signal yet that the old bonds of mutual loyalty between worker and giant company are being strained to the breaking point. Of all American firms, AT&T probably came closest to a Japanese-style identification of worker with corporation. It was once common for an AT&T employee, asked by a new acquaintance what he did, rather than replying "I'm an accountant" or "I'm an engineer" to say "I work for the phone company...
...Grant, the puckish editor of the Interest Rate Observer, is a doubter. He observes that people are buying too many mutual funds and too few suits. This explains why Wall Street had a great year while malls had a lousy Christmas. After pouring $100 billion--plus into stock funds last year and having been maxed out on their credit cards to begin with, investors had nothing left for clothes, says Grant...
Retailers' stocks. When millions of people fund their retirement plans this year, more money will flow into mutual funds, leaving even less for suits. Also, retailers that had a lousy Christmas in 1995 won't have until Christmas 1996 to prove themselves...
According to Melissa Brown at Prudential Securities, 86% of the most popular mutual funds did worse than the Standard & Poor's 500 index in 1995. This is more proof that the national pastime of picking the winning mutual fund is a wasted effort. Most people will do better buying the so-called index funds that give them a guaranteed average return...
...reality of a common ground. Since then our society has embraced two sets of values: an entrepreneurial individualism based on personal rights and liberties, and a community spirit forged at PTA meetings and Rotary clubs and countless other places where we gather to work together on issues of mutual concern. Tocqueville, I think, was wrong. These two strands of the American character are not in conflict; they are interwoven. They are the warp and woof of our national fabric...