Word: decentering
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GARY BERGSTROM: We have been through an almost classic waterfall and are due for at least a decent rally for a while. Where I take issue with other people is in the longer-run outlook for equity returns. You have to be a wild bull on U.S. earnings growth to get even high single-digit numbers out of the S&P 500 over the next five to seven years...
...lives sometimes with his girl friend Karen Darvin, 20, a freckled, leggy model from Texas, in a small apartment on Manhattan's East Side. More frequently, he is down on the Jersey shore, where he has just moved into more comfortable--but not lavish--quarters, and bought his first decent hi-fi rig. He remains adamantly indifferent to clothing and personal adornment, although he wears a small gold cross around his neck--a vestigial remnant of Catholicism--and, probably to challenge it, a small gold ring in his left ear, which gives him a little gypsy flash. When...
...found herself priced out of her neighborhood. While she expanded her search to the city's North and South sides, she was forced to move her family in with her mother. "If it weren't for her, I would have been homeless," Brewster recalls. "I couldn't find a decent place. The only apartment I could find was in a slum area" suffering from "drug issues, gang issues and neglect." Brewster finally found a place close to her old neighborhood, but she had to empty her savings and borrow to scrape together the $800 a month and $1,500 security...
...Referenda are a product of political cowardice. Legislators shouldn't be asking voters to do their job for them. They are paid, usually decent salaries, to consider complex issues and vote on them. Because they devote all their time to government, they are supposed to understand all the subtleties and complexities of a proposal. By passing the buck to voters in the form of a referendum, they're asking you to do their job for them...
...Look at those girls," hisses Vishnu, another extra. "How is Rosy any different from them?" Junior artists are graded during their selection. Some, who can pass as upper class, are called "Decent." The rest are called "B Grade." Rosy is "Decent," and therefore feels that non-union models are taking her jobs. "They are prostitutes," declares another of Rosy's friends. "These so-called models are given preference because they sleep with the producers and the agents...