Word: mutually
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...drastic approach comes from Congressman John Porter, an Illinois Republican. He suggests that the Federal Government each year refund the Social Security surplus into Individual Social Security Retirement Accounts. Every worker could direct his account, like an IRA, into an array of nonspeculative investments, including Government bonds or certain mutual funds. The result, says Porter, would be a system of "vested, fully funded, worker-owned retirement accounts" -- though one in which the more successful investors would reap the larger benefits...
...decline in that sort of mutual confidence is a sign of a contracting economy. Says Carl Steidtmann, chief economist for Management Horizons, a retailing research firm: "The consumer looks at his own situation and feels somewhat ill at ease, slows down his accumulation of debt and steps up his savings rate." Businesses, which try to gauge the confidence and appetites of ( their customers, currently see very little to like. As a result, business borrowing is growing at a slower pace than at any other time during the past decade...
...wait to write home and tell them about this one," Meg continued. We had discovered we had a mutual tendency to oversleep. "I don't know why I came all the way to Australia to miss out on sleep. I could have done that at home," she muttered into her exam...
...bought a $250, 14-karat gold brooch at a jewelry store in Peabody. He made the purchase about the same time his family was meeting to discuss how to handle Matthew's confession. Allen says she never received the brooch and that the calls were made only after a mutual friend said Charles complained that she had never contacted him. She used the credit card so the calls would not show up on her parents' telephone bill, because they had warned her not to get involved. She, in fact, has a steady boyfriend who goes to Brown (the school Stuart...
...considered bold to ask, What if Gorbachev really is willing to disarm significantly? What if he is prepared to demilitarize Soviet society and Soviet foreign policy? What if he adopts levels and deployments of troops, types and numbers of weapons that give real meaning to his slogans of "mutual security" and "nonoffensive defense...