Word: bulks
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...time, the pros controlled only 15% of the U.S. stock market (the figure is now more than 60%). But they did the bulk of the trading. They moved the market. And therefore they could not, as a group, beat it. The mutual-fund industry's attempts to move this boulder by taking bigger risks ended badly. When the stock market plunged in the 1970s, the funds followed...
...also to pension funds and college endowments--and to not-so-rich people through listed hedge-fund stocks and hedgelike mutual funds. Thorp's was not the first hedge fund, and the term now covers all manner of investment beasts. But the approach he pioneered accounts for the bulk of the $1.43 trillion that Chicago-based Hedge Fund Research says hedge funds had under management at the end of the year. That's still puny compared with the $20 trillion in mutual funds worldwide. But because most hedgies trade avidly, usually with borrowed money that amplifies their clout...
...answers aren't readily apparent. Bush's decision to send more troops to Iraq and Afghanistan means both wars will continue to consume the bulk of the U.S.'s military resources, to say nothing of the mental energies of the President's lieutenants in Washington. Although Defense Secretary Robert Gates has hinted that the increase in troop strength in Iraq may last only until the summer, the Administration rejects the idea of setting any firm limits on the U.S. commitment there. Says Rice: "This is going to happen over a period of time ... It's not as if there...
...categories: unsigned “staff editorials” that appear on the upper left-hand side of the editorial page each day, and signed op-eds, comments, columns, letters, and artwork that appear elsewhere. As an editorial board, we have two primary tasks: First, we comprise the bulk of the Crimson editors who debate the content of staff editorials (see more on staff editorials below), and second, we solicit and edit signed content...
...mother: she came to work on the box-office telephone ("Some mothers give you their milk, others sell tickets to Promises, Promises"). He later sold the theater?he has no ownership interest in the theater named for him, which belongs to the Nederlander chain?and now the bulk of his assets are stocks and bonds and the royalty rights to his scripts...