Word: mutuals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While change makes people uneasy, prosperity makes them adventurous. Highway 50's towns are settled and unsettled by the heirs of the Forty-Niners, the newly liberated telecommuters and mutual-fund-toting retirees and boat people homesteading in Garden City, Kans., writing a Vietnamese-language instruction manual for Windows 95 and declaring with a smile, "We are searching for freedom"--delighted by both the cliche and the profound truth behind...
Friedman was ecstatic. This seemed to be solid confirmation of the story casually mentioned in The Roswell Incident. He arranged to have John Carpenter, a Springfield therapist, interview Anderson. Carpenter, who also directed investigations for the local chapter of MUFON, the Mutual UFO Network, conducted several sessions with Anderson, often using hypnosis, presumably to help him "recover" buried memories of the event. Anderson later told the Springfield News-Leader: "We all went up ...to it [a large silver disk]. There were three creatures, three bodies, lying on the ground underneath this thing in the shade. Two weren't moving...
...trying to work with Harvard to solve a mutual problem." he added...
...afraid because four years at Harvard taught us about competition, but not about community and relationship. Since we're all aiming for impressive positions that are in short supply in society, such as United States senator, chief of residency or mutual fund manager, we must fight for what we want. This means some of us are going to lose. Competition's very nature, then, fosters the feeling that life means surviving in fundamental and existential solitude. "I am alone," a friend told me once. "If I don't fight to get on top, somebody else will get there first...
Knowles had met Rudenstine when he served on a visiting committee at Princeton University, where Rudenstine was the provost. The two men did not know each other well, but a good deal of mutual respect existed between them, Knowles remembers...