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...exceeded its own internal benchmark, the Policy Portfolio, which returned 6.8 percent during the past year...
According to the internal benchmark, Meyer's term has been a successful one. Over the last three years, HMC's net gain has been 12.7 percent, which outperformed the Policy Portfolio's 9.9 percent return over the same period...
...endowment also beat the median institution fund over the three years, which matched the internal benchmark's return...
...International Paper and Merck, each up a point. The S&P 500 rose 1.23 to 462.05. NASDAQ stocks dipped 0.26 to 755.37. Meanwhile, Treasury bond prices fell -- and yields climbed -- as bond traders registered their disappointment over the Fed's decision not to stifle inflation. The yield on the benchmark 30-year Treasury rose to a 27-month...
...except AIDS, a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says. Firearms are now wasting a million years of potential life -- measured in working years -- in America every 12 months. (Statisticians reached that figure by subtracting a person's age at death from age 65, the benchmark for retirement.) By that reckoning, the amount of years lost to guns rose 13.6 percent from 1980 to 1991. Three-fourths of that increase stemmed from murders, most in the late1980s as more teens and young adults died in gunfire...