Word: commonization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rule on saving for retirement was that you should gradually reduce the percentage of stocks in your portfolio and increase the percentage of bonds. In fact, a common recommendation still used by some planners is to match your percentage of bonds to your age: at your 65th birthday hold 65% bonds (or bonds and cash) and 35% stocks. But a typical bond, the five-year Treasury, historically yields only about 5.3% and yields even less today--about 4.5%. The broad stock market, in contrast, has returned an annual average of about 11% a year since 1926, 18% a year since...
Their unscientific theory is that the peoplewith the most answers in common will also make thebest couples. In past years 800 to 1,000 studentshave logged on to find their matches...
...make a perfect couple. While they don'tshare any common interests--Ashley is interestedin writing and will comp the Advocate thissemester, while Peter is on the squash team--theyhave a special rapport. Any complaints? None fromEvans. Christodoulo, an avid Star Wars fan, hadonly one. "She always confuses Star Trek and StarWars," he says. "I'm only a Star Wars...
...Dance show that the Houses can serve as the locus for successful events drawing students from across the College, and more events of this kind would be welcome. But it seems that the implied definition of "social life" is unreasonably narrow and would not include skating on the Boston Common with your boyfriend or girlfriend, going to the movies or to an inexpensive ethnic restaurant a T-ride away in Boston or watching a Saturday afternoon game at Bright Hockey Rink between the top two women's hockey teams in the country. I wonder if it even includes going...
...rewarding nature of human perception, in which you must drink sleep that the forest may come. The confidence that the "forest will come" is reminiscent of both ancient prophecy and that language of television commercials which somehow capture the religiosity of modern times: this ancient is modern trick is common in Herbert. Note also his lack of punctuation, typical of all the poems in Elegy for the Departure, as well as his readiness to disregard physical categories (e.g. "a grain of water," "a chord of light"). Through such inverted interest in the elements, Herbert recalls the most ancient pre-Socratic...