(The lawsuit was settled "on mutually agreeable terms" in 2015).
The Soviet Union's thinking ran the same way, and both countries settled on a policy of mutually assured destruction.
But as the years of conflict have turned to decades, the city has settled into a tenuous, if mutually disdainful, co-existence with the Phelpses.
Instead of being digested, they settled down and developed a mutually beneficial relationship developed with their hosts that eventually enabled the rise of more complex life, like today's plants and animals.
"After dealing with the distractions, both sides seem to have settled down to a deep appreciation of an astonishingly mutually beneficial relationship," Carr says.
Betting patterns in and of themselves do not prove anything, of course, and Italy has long struggled with the phenomenon of teams settling for mutually beneficial – and hence entirely predictable – results at the end of the season.
"While we strongly disagree with the verdict, we are satisfied that the parties reached a mutually acceptable agreement to settle this case," Carly Schaffner, a Toyota spokeswoman, said in a statement.
All ticketing fees will be settled with the event organizer directly after the event or at a mutually agreed upon time.
In the end, Icahn settled the board fight with eBay, and he and the company added a mutually agreed upon board member, David W. Dorman, a former chief executive of AT&T, to the board.
Frank Reginald ("Reggie") Brown, IV, and Snapchat, Inc., along with its CEO, Evan Spiegel, and CTO, Robert Murphy, announced today that they have settled their dispute over Mr. Brown's claim of an ownership interest in Snapchat on mutually agreeable terms.
Given these mutually incompatible demands, it is surprising how many people now believe that the city's future can be settled peacefully by negotiation.
