Word: mutuals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...temporary means of saving money and an indication of superpower communication, but not a substantive indication of Soviet--or, for that matter, American--goodwill. A fundamental refashioning of superpower relations requires not a simple cutback in weapons but a complex, gradual, and painstakingly slow evolution toward mutual Soviet and American understanding...
...Fidelity Investments, manager of $75 billion worth of stock-market mutual funds, investors redeeming shares or switching to other funds swamp the firm. The company invokes a rarely used rule that allows seven days for such orders to be transacted...
...never so violently as on Black Monday. Tickers and news reports flashed the story of huge price declines on heavy volume. With each sale, more investors became convinced that a collapse had begun and they had better get out while they still could. Mutual-fund managers tried to hold on but could not; they had to dump stock to get cash to pay off investors who clamored to redeem their fund shares. Margin calls to investors who had bought stock on credit aggravated the frenzy. Some could not put up additional collateral and were sold...
...quiet long enough during any given hour of class discussion to hear any one else speak. Through this research, scientists uncovered the existence of a secret ritualistic club, "The Bullshitters of Harvard." After many years of freelancing, the individuals apparently decided to organize in order to accomplish their mutual objective of worldwide annoyance. I attended a recent meeting during which an alumnus returned to give a speech on techniques of Harvard section behavior...
Other issues facing the candidates are matters for mutual concern. Most support the goals of a recent report by Black teachers at Cambridge Rindge & Latin High School (CRLS), which saw a need to bring Black and minority students' lagging academic performance up to that of their non-minority classmates...