Word: mutually
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...neighbors guessed that if they cashed in their stock in Joe's agency, they'd be worth about $20 million. I nagged them to diversify their portfolio -- you know, buy a bushel basket of Krugerrands and bury them in the backyard, or maybe put a few million into a mutual fund. But Mom and Dad felt this would be a no-confidence vote in Joe. ``It'd be,'' Dad said, ``like showing up for your kid's piano recital with a Walkman...
...Hell, they're all artificial,'' Joe says. ``If you think about it, we've been doing this forever. We put our money in stocks, bonds, shares of mutual funds. Those things represent real assets -- factories, ships, bananas, software, gold, whatever. Simoleons is just a new name for those assets. You carry around a smart card and spend it just like cash. Or else you go shopping in the Metaverse and spend the money online, and the goods show up on your doorstep the next morning...
...lead a total life online,'' says Dave Hughes, founder of the Old Colorado City Electronic Cottage, a cybersettlement. ``But if it's done right, online communication can lead to face-to-face contact, not away from it.'' At its best, the sprawling Internet brings together people with mutual interests who, for reasons ranging from geography to social and income disparity, would otherwise never have met. These virtual friendships can lead to physical encounters that may cement lifelong relationships. ``The cybercommunity is not separate from your community of friends; it's just not geographically local,'' says Carolyn Ybarra, an anthropology Ph.D...
Cancer Patients Mutual support from fellow sufferers, their doctors and families comes in alt.support.cancer...
...chilly monday night, Laura Richards and Mark Geyman are sitting in a living room in Jeffersonville, Indiana, their hands clasped tightly together in Laura's lap. This attractive, clean-cut couple met last May through a mutual friend and got engaged in November, and they are happy to tell John and Patti Thompson, their mentors in the St. Augustine Catholic Church's marriage-preparation program, all about their wedding plans. It will be a big June affair, Laura says, with eight bridesmaids and eight groomsmen, two flower girls, a ring bearer and two priests. Patti Thompson cuts through the chatter...