Word: mutuals
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...still hang thick in the air. i.r.a. prisoners, who were demanding political instead of criminal status, began a series of hunger strikes to get it. The British government refused to budge. So, one by one, 10 men starved themselves to death. The macabre drama was a low point of mutual, willful intransigence in the battle between the British state and Irish republicanism, and provoked the province to some of its worst bloodshed. The ghost of Bobby Sands, the first of the prisoners to die, has hovered over Ulster's uneasy peace ever since. Yet it is an English-born woman...
...title of her memoir aptly describes the gulf Gray perceived between her and her parents. Her mother, the vain and extravagant hat designer Tatiana, and her stepfather Alexander Liberman, who rose to become the editorial director of Condé Nast, were dedicated to each other and to their mutual ascent in post--World War II New York City society, lavishing attention on friends like Marlene Dietrich and Irving Penn but often neglecting the young woman sharing their home. The book is a brisk, bittersweet and ultimately forgiving look at two larger-than-life figures and the shadows they cast...
Colin S. Thomas-Jensen, media and advocacy assistant for Africa at the ICG, said that in an age of globalization many universities may unknowingly be linked to Sudan through their investments in hedge funds and mutual funds. According to the ICG, divestment from these holdings serves as a symbolic condemnation of the Sudanese regime...
...said it hopes that academic institutions’ reconsideration of their investments will create broader pressure for state pension funds and mutual funds to divest from stocks affiliated with Sudan’s current regime...
...most important for the top executives on the UC to share a positive working relationship and an at least somewhat unified vision for the Council. There should be a creative tension between the UC President and Vice President, but that tension must exist within a milieu of mutual respect and a common set of priorities. Single-ticket voting will ensure that the President and the VP are ready to work together from the beginning...