Word: mutually
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...McCain's jokes occasionally misfired. Was he being serious when he agreed with a reporter that the meeting was like taking medicine? The Senator insists that he was joking, and Bush is said to believe him. The worst moment was Bush's. At an event designed to show mutual admiration, the G.O.P. nominee ducked a question about the Rev. Pat Robertson, who recently warned that McCain would be a "very dangerous" Vice President. McCain, though disappointed, understands the bargain Bush has made with the preacher. "Would I have preferred if he'd said Robertson is a turkey? Sure!" McCain says...
...same technologies that have made war so lethal now prevent or restrict it by shrinking the distance and differences between peoples and nations. The "global village" creates opportunities for greater mutual understanding and an identity as a larger community, and reduces the acceptance of violence and aggression. As a result, war is increasingly constrained by law and the public's assessment of just causes and acceptable costs...
...blazing this week for partially privatizing the program, setting aside an unspecified portion of the payroll tax paid by employers into the fund, currently 12.4 percent of salaries, for individual retirement accounts. Workers would then have control over their own accounts, with the ability to invest in stocks, bonds, mutual funds, whatever - and make their golden years as golden as they possibly could. Bush argues that investors couldn't help but beat the 2 percent returns that the fund's current surpluses draw...
...This was the part that scared off Alan Greenspan last year. Purists feel that government investment of such a huge pool of money in the markets, even in a broad-based mutual fund run by a blind trust of sage bankers, amounts to state ownership of private businesses. Of course, investment decisions made by market professionals instead of private citizens with day jobs are more likely to pay off reliably in the long term. But the administrative tangles and potential conflicts of interest - as companies vie for the attention of the fund's directors - have nudged this proposal...
...model of Platonic friendship: the younger, with physical beauty (nature's kiss), and the elder, with a developed life of the mind, conjoining in a discourse for their mutual pleasure. I am told that Bloom had these same, intense, friendships and was fascinated by male companionship in general. Ravelstein's own companion, a forty-years younger Chinese intellectual named Nikki, is fiercely devoted to him. And yet there are hints that Ravelstein couldn't live up to the Greek ideal-him, the mature erastes, doting on his loving, ephebic eromenae and enjoying their beauty...