Word: bracingly
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...lose value as inflation rises. You also might want to shift 5% to 10% of your portfolio into commodities to take advantage of the first robust market for raw materials in a quarter century. How do you do that? Leave actual pork-belly trading to the pros. You can brace for inflation with mutual funds that invest directly in commodities, like Pimco Commodity RealReturn Strategy (up 43% in the past 12 months) and Oppenheimer Real Asset (up 35%). Funds that invest in stocks of companies in the raw-materials business include T. Rowe Price New Era (up 41%), Vanguard Energy...
...doesn’t change the fact that Moore is sitting in the spinal unit of a hospital right now, with a brace around his neck and an uncertain future in front...
After dropping the first game, Hendricks removed the brace on her ankle—which will require offseason surgery to fix a ligament—and proceeded to win the next three games and the match...
...does Alyson Hannigan's Sally measure up? Answer: She gives it everything she's got. No stranger to sex jokes after her work in the smutty American Pie films, Hannigan starts quietly, reclining in her seat and moaning softly; then she moves into second gear with a brace of breathless "Oh Gods" and "Yeah, right theres"; climaxing with a series of table slaps and shrieks. Alas, this is about the only point in the show that matches the verve and vivacity of the original. You can see how it must have looked on paper. Take a dialogue-heavy, witty film...
...dimensional. Marcia Gay Harden gives the film’s best performance in the single scene that allows her to show a little personality. Christine Baranski, who must be getting sick of playing vengeful, money-grubbing ex-wives, is amusing as ever as the president’s (brace yourself) vengeful, money-grubbing ex-wife...