Word: mutuals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Beverly Hills Cop is a comedy of mutual dismay, in which Axel's culture shock over the way his West Coast colleagues gumshoe through Lotusland is matched by their outraged puzzlement over how to handle a streetwise hipster for whom anarchy is both a way of life and an investigative technique. Were Eddie Murphy absent from this movie one might decry its ambling and the failure of writer and director to develop out of a fertile premise either a well-twisted mystery or some truly wild comic turns. But Murphy is very much present, and it could be argued...
...financial world, though, soon began shifting underneath the bankers. Money-market mutual-fund accounts, for example, which were invented in 1971 by Wall Street Mavericks Bruce Bent and Henry Brown, offered interest rates of 8% or more at a time when passbook savings accounts at banks paid only 4½%. In 1977 Merrill Lynch jolted bankers with its Cash Management Account, which combined stock brokerage with savings and checking accounts...
...record shows we care," said David L. Whiteman, vice-president for administration of the Grace plant. "The relations between Grace and the community were founded on mutual respect, mutual, and proper communication...
...Iraq, the U.S. was the worst of imperialists, a country run by Zionists and hypocrites. To Washington, Iraq was an international menace, second only to Libya as a haven for terrorists. Yet despite the two governments' name-calling and mutual suspicion throughout the 1970s, a tentative courtship between the Reagan Administration and the regime of Saddam Hussein has been quietly blossoming in recent years. Now the two countries are about to resume diplomatic relations, broken off by Iraq during the 1967 Arab-Israeli...
...Chad is once again in the hands of the Chadians," declared an exultant French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson last week. His claim: after a 15-month standoff in the sub-Saharan former French colony, both Libya and France had, by mutual agreement, withdrawn all their troops. But had they? "Substantial Libyan troops remain in Chad," snapped U.S. State Department Spokesman John Hughes. "The Libyan troops have completely withdrawn," reiterated a piqued Jean-Michel Baylet, the French Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Countered Chad's President, HissèneHabré, "The Libyan aggression has not ceased. That...