Word: mutually
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...existential ideal that can probably never be reached but can never be discarded: equal rights to variety, to construct your life as you see fit, to choose your traveling companions. It has always been a heterogeneous country, and its cohesion, whatever cohesion it has, can only be based on mutual respect. There never was a core America in which everyone looked the same, spoke the same language, worshipped the same gods and believed the same things...
...jostling of scores of tribes that become American to the extent to which they can negotiate accommodations with one another. These negotiations succeed unevenly and often fail: you need only to glance at the history of racial relations to know that. The melting pot never melted. But American mutuality lives in recognition of difference. The fact remains that America is a collective act of the imagination whose making never ends, and once that sense of collectivity and mutual respect is broken, the possibilities of American-ness begin to unravel...
...When mutual respect breaks down, the wrong kind of multiculturalism takes over, debasing politics and the arts...
...atmosphere at many firms thick with hostility. "I feel like I'm walking along a geological fault line within U.S. companies," says Robert Rosen, author of a recent book, The Healthy Company. "There is more frustration and tension between employers and their employees than I've ever seen. Mutual cynicism and mistrust seem to be at an all-time high...
...year to 3.5% at the end. Besides giving the economy a nudge, the drop in rates triggered a wave of so-called asset shifting. Dismayed by low yields on CDs and Treasury securities, savers bet their money on the stock market. A record $31 billion flowed into stock mutual funds during the first 11 months of the year...