Word: mutuals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Actress Valerie Harper and Lorimar Productions sued each other last year, it looked as if the case might drag on until 1992 before it even went to trial. After all, the Los Angeles court system is clogged with 150,000 new civil cases a year. But, instead, the mutual breach-of-contract suits -- a fallout from Harper's departure last summer from the NBC series Valerie -- went to trial together last week. The shortcut? With the blessings of the state court, both sides got together and hired a private judge. "I'm very happy to have my day in court...
...demonstrate awareness of what is going on, to break the unvoiced conspiracy of acceptance. Bush and the "student" wince toward each other asymptotically, oozing what the one hopes is concern and the other hopes is deference. "Touch her," says the director, "on the shoulder." Breaking the perimeter of mutual embarrassment, Bush makes the merest contact and murmurs inaudibly something about her family. As a whistle- blower, the Vice President has been miscast...
Western critics charge that the Japanese manipulate the Tokyo exchange. After the crash, they contend, the Finance Ministry allowed mutual funds to postpone revealing their losses, then asked banks and insurance companies to buy shares in a mass gesture of patriotism. Many brokers purportedly encouraged individual investors to load up on stocks even if it meant dipping into debt...
...reason, even in a highly motivated professional crew, that the same kind of sexual tensions that develop here in offices aren't going to develop in space." Santy believes women should be included in the crew. If they are, she says, there should be at least two -- both for mutual support and to avoid disruptive sexual entanglements aloft. Former Astronaut Michael Collins has suggested an even simpler remedy: send up a crew of four married couples. "But eight is a bad number," he concedes, "because you want an odd number; in arguments, you don't want to risk...
...truly special relationships. The two nations engage in ventures ranging from joint development of a $6.5 billion jet fighter known as the FSX to intelligence gathering on North Korean radicals in advance of the Seoul Olympics. "There will continue to be a tremendous mutual dependence between the U.S. and Japan," says Historian Edwin Reischauer, author of The Japanese Today and former U.S. Ambassador to Tokyo. "If they turned uncooperative it would be a disaster for us, but it would also be a disaster for them...