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Harvesting losses with a mutual fund is a little easier. Let's say you purchased $10,000 of a large-cap growth fund, and now, with the market's slide, the fund is worth less than $7,600--a likely scenario, considering that the average large-cap growth fund is down more than 24% this year to date. You could sell the large-cap growth fund and invest the money in another fund family's large-cap growth fund. Because the funds will probably have similar holdings, you won't alter your asset-class mix, and your investment strategy stays...
Selig's timing of the announcement--hours before baseball's labor contract expired and two days after the finish of a great World Series--infuriated the players' union, which viewed it as a hardball bargaining tactic. The league is desperate for some kind of salary cap, like that of the NFL and the NBA, because the owners are unable to contain themselves. Witness Texas Rangers boss Tom Hicks' signing Alex Rodriguez to a 10-year contract worth $252 million. Union president Donald Fehr issued a terse denunciation and then filed a grievance. Said former commissioner Fay Vincent: "Once again...
...will stand shoulder to shoulder against terrorism and boast a series of economic and other agreements. Look closer, though, and you'll see saddle sores. Bush officials tell TIME that late last month Russia rejected a U.S.-proposed ceiling for strategic nuclear weapons, objecting that the proposed cap of about 2,000 warheads was still too high. The rebuff forced Under Secretary of State John Bolton to work through last week in Moscow to try to get the Russians back on board. Another rub: Bush officials tell TIME that Russian planes bombed the Republic of Georgia earlier this month...
...bookstore’s mascot, a bust of Shakespeare wearing a graduation cap, sits on a cluttered wooden table...
...short, white man wearing a dark jacket and cap approached two graduate students from behind and demanded their wallets...