Word: caps
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...most voguish are Indian mid-cap funds, which bet on riskier companies that may one day grow up to be blue chips. In November and December alone, the CNX mid-cap index jumped 28%. Returns like those make life worth living, but gravity has a way of bringing things back to earth. When I met him in Bombay, Nilesh Shah, head of equity strategy at Kotak Securities, seemed pleased but perplexed by the performance of his team's fledgling mid-cap fund, targeted at foreigners willing to pony up $100,000. Six months after its launch last August, he marveled...
...course CEOs rake in the dough. But a study says the beefier paychecks can't be explained by increases in their companies' market cap or anything else. In other words, the bosses didn't earn those hikes. The study--done by two professors, one from Harvard law, the other from Cornell's business school--found that among S&P 500 companies, the compensation of CEOs soared 146%, on average, from...
...front-runner, a fair-weather fan. They live in Swampscott and Matapan and Cheshire, Vermont, and Rumford, Maine, and Fairfield, Connecticut, and even, apparently, in the American South. From what I've seen on the streets of Manhattan in the last four months-unless the bright-red-B cap is some new fashion statement, they are proliferating in New York City, too-seriously beyond...
...other sources, and most simply shrug. Today I could see why. He was ambling alone toward a gate guarded by a pair of Swiss Guards. He too was without the Cardinal colors, wearing a short black overcoat over his black suit and clerical collar, with a peaked black woolen cap: looking more like the stooped village pastor in Bernanos' 'Diary of A Country Priest' than a man set to help choose the next pope. My colleague Jordan Bonfante approached him, and asked how he felt this impending conclave compares with the last two. "In 1978," he said, "I was just...
Last spring, Princeton faculty voted to implement a non-binding 35 percent cap on the number of A-level grades distributed in each undergraduate department. The proposal, to be phased in over the course of three years, took effect this fall...