Word: deposited
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...millions of investors are being badgered by conflicting advice from bankers and brokers. That is because sliding interest rates are shaking up the entire investment industry. As the luster has faded from such multi-billion-dollar investment lures as money-market mutual funds and six-month bank certificates of deposit, investment experts have been scrambling to come up with new high-yield alternatives that will appeal to safety-conscious investors...
Besides the standard choices of savings deposits, stocks, bonds and mutual funds, financial advisers are now nudging clients toward such exotic new fare as zero-coupon bonds, seven-day bank C.D.s, and brokerage-house deposit certificates. With such a variety to choose from, even professionals are befuddled. Says Gary Strum, a vice president at the E.F. Mutton investment firm: "You need an M.B.A. degree to understand what the banks and institutions are offering nowadays...
Massachusetts citizens will have the opportunity to vote on several significant issues this fall, such as the death penalty, and a bill imposing a deposit on bottles. Though filled with subtle implications and important side considerations, they are at heart, issues with yes or no answers. They are questions of morals and ethics: is it right to execute someone convicted of murder? Is it worth it to increase price for decreased litter...
...hastily convened a news conference to say that she no longer would settle for impregnation; Mitchelson had spoken wrong. The end result: Mitchelson looked like a headline-grabber, not an innovative attorney, and his client looked positively flaky. Wire service reporters have taken to calling her case the "no-deposit, no-return" lawsuit. Other monikers are less subtle...
...Botswana, near the southern tip of Africa, should have been an occasion for celebration. After all, Harry Oppenheimer, 73, the chairman of De Beers, the cartel that controls the production and sale of most of the world's diamonds, has called the site "the most important primary deposit found anywhere in the world since the discovery at Kimberley more than a century ago." The rich ore of the Jwaneng mine is expected to produce 3 million carats of precious stones in 1982, and eventually 4.5 million carats annually, nearly one-quarter of De Beers' total output...