Word: mutually
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...will withdraw their troops from most towns and villages of the West Bank by the end of next March, transferring civil authority to an elected Palestinian Council. Its 304 pages of articles, annexes and appendixes ricochet back and forth between the abstract and the arcane, recoiling from pledges of "mutual understanding and tolerance" to notes on how many adzuki beans the Palestinians could import from Jordan...
...Houston was building near Bombay. Enron, which broke ground in March and stands to lose $300 million if it abandons the venture, is seeking talks aimed at permitting work to resume. "This is typically Indian," says Barton Biggs, chairman of Morgan Stanley Asset Management, which runs an Indian mutual fund. "For every three steps forward, they take two steps back...
Although Dan Quayle isn't known for inspiring confidence, a mutual fund has invited him onto its board of advisers. His job is to make nice with investors (minimum investment: $1 million) at annual gatherings. For fussy fund seekers, John Sununu is also on board...
What could be more benign than that boy scout of financial instruments, the municipal bond? What town has not floated an issue to build a road? What little old lady (or big mutual fund) has not heard an accountant extol "munis" as the most foolproof of investments? Lending to companies is risky: they fold overnight, leaving squabbling creditors. But municipalities don't disappear from the map; and knowing they will borrow more tomorrow, they will do anything -- even raise taxes-to avoid defaulting today...
...been given to seeSingapore and countless other exotic places. Ihave been given to understand how small this worldis and how it torments itself with countlessthings it need not torment itself with if peoplecould find within themselves a little morecourage, a little more hope, a little moreresponsibility, a little more mutual understandingand love...