Word: concerningly
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...calculation does not include gains that some of the funds may have made in Monday's rally, but analysts say those won't be nearly enough to make up for the hundreds of billions of dollars that the funds are down. "The losses should concern every investor because these are supposed to be the smartest guys out there," says Charles Gradante, co-founder of hedge-fund advisory firm Hennesse Group. "If they can't manage their investments, how is an average person with a 401(k) supposed to cope...
...Wednesday's activity reflected that measured concern dominating the ebullience that drove the previous two sessions. Apart from Tokyo's Nikkei - which ended the day 1.1% higher - bourses across Asia all slumped. Hong Kong's Hang Seng lost 5%, for example, following its 13% surge earlier in the week. Europe suffered similar shrinkage as London's FTSE 100 slipped 3.5% by noon, while Paris' CAC 40 and Frankfurt's Dax both shedded 3.1%. Some of that slippage, market analysts said, came from profit-taking on gains posted earlier in the week. But the major factor came from broader concern...
...unfettered capitalism, which has lately led to the spread of economic contagion from American banks to the rest of the world. But most damaging to America's global reputation has been the invasion of Iraq, which many Europeans viewed as a dangerous misadventure from the start. "There's concern that America goes its own way rather than listening to its allies or seeking international approval," says Andrew Kohut, president of the Washington-based Pew Research Center. "The war in Iraq is the poster child for America behaving badly...
...conflict resolution, according to Claude Bruderlein, who directs the School of Public Health’s Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research. Though Harvard has been intimately involved in the establishment of the Lab, Bruderlein said the University’s involvement has been deliberately limited out of concern that too close an association with Harvard’s brand name could alter the character of the Lab by drawing too much publicity too early. “In part, this is an effort to avoid a brain-drain and keep local conditions intact,” Bruderlein said...
...attempting to have it both ways. They object to abortion on the grounds that it harms women. Yet, this position, joined to the term “feminist,” serves merely to conceal a deeply conservative and misogynistic agenda, motivated by ideology rather than a concern for women’s welfare...