Word: mutually
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...with four grandchildren, three daughters and a former stockbroker named Doris Edelman whom she considered her "fourth daughter." But a three-member panel from the American Arbitration Association has concluded that Betty Shapiro's fourth daughter took Mom to the cleaners. Edelman bought and sold millions of dollars of mutual funds on Shapiro's account, generating some $200,000 in sales charges and commissions. The panel's judgment: Edelman's employer, Prudential-Bache Securities, must pay $1 million in punitive fees and $546,769 in compensation to Shapiro...
These cerebral anxieties are counterbalanced by the physical turmoils of Laura, Agnes' younger sister, who has plunged into a passionate love affair with Bernard, a radio journalist eight years her junior. But after months of mutual bliss, Bernard abruptly becomes detached and preoccupied. Laura, growing frantic, assumes that she is being supplanted by another woman. Bernard is ashamed to tell her the real reason for his dwindling ardor: the appearance at his radio station of a stranger who gives him a diploma-like document, handsomely executed and lettered, that reads, "Bernard Bertrand is hereby declared a Complete Ass." This...
...book records one late-night phone conversation between characters named Lily and Molly that demonstrates the bizarreness beneath their average, middle-class appearances. Molly calls to inform Lily of the death of their mutual friend Inez, who was found standing up, arms outstretched, wearing nothing but a pair of galoshes...
...with unique, if one-dimensional, characters. Molly, for example, is a Xerox artist, one whose creations are only copies of other people's work. Molly, Lily and their friends are witty, if unfinished, particularly since we only know about them through the anecdotes of the narrators. Because they discuss mutual friends, Molly and Lily never describe anyone fully enough for the reader to grasp their personalities. We are left with tidbits, sufficient to spark interest, but not to relay complete identities...
...simply a question of legality, but of the mutual responsibility that should be the goal of every member of this community...