Word: caps
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...phone call with Mayor Rudy Giuliani, accepting the mayor's invitation to tour his city's wreckage. Bush looked like a nervous teenager making weekend plans, especially in contrast to Giuliani, who was magnificent during New York City's darkest hour. (He had worn a New York fire department cap, and he deserved to wear it.) But this very bad Bush moment was immediately followed by the first very good Bush moment, in which he showed the humanity and resolve?choke up, swallow and keep going, just like everyone else - the public needed...
...with the military response for which the world is waiting right now - this ten-year boom started when the tanks rolled onto Kuwaiti soil, and starting it again will take a psychological sense that the U.S. has its enemies in its sights, its political will galvanized, and its thinking cap on about how not to do more harm than good...
...Beat everyone else to large multinational companies. Froehlich says that eventually individual investors are going to feel as though they've been penalized for sitting on the sidelines in money-market accounts earning 3%. "When they feel penalized, then the first stop into the equity market is the large-cap multinational company," he says. "You don't come off the sidelines and go to some small biotech company whose name you don't even know...
Diversification is never out of fashion, so continue to seek out investments that aren't highly correlated to smooth out the inevitable bumps along the bottom. That means adding small-cap and mid-cap stocks as well...
...Earlier this year, for instance, Thompson unveiled compelling evidence that ice across the tropics is disappearing at an unprecedented rate. Kilimanjaro, he reported, sports 80% less ice cover today than it did in 1912; a third of that loss has happened within the past decade. The Quelccaya ice cap is also receding at an alarming clip and may disappear entirely...