Word: depressant
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...tough time for investors because with the dollar sagging, experts recommend a slug of foreign stocks and bonds for a diversified portfolio. Critics, including some U.S. fund managers, claim that terror-free investing will mean missed opportunities. And forced divestment could have tax and transaction costs that could depress a fund's performance. According to a study by the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, if some of the Iran-divestment bills currently before state legislatures "are passed in their broadest form, institutions may be forced to sell $18 billion in investments." Tennessee and Maine lawmakers have rejected terror...
...addition, this year is the first in which applicants have not had the opportunity to apply early to Harvard. Fitzsimmons said that the single-deadline program could depress the yield if more students choose competing schools that still have an early program...
...Wherever the potato has been adopted populations have boomed. In 1798 pioneering demographer Thomas Malthus complained that more food brings more mouths, and warned that the potato would depress wages and living standards by pushing Europe's population far beyond the opportunities of employment. What Malthus didn't know was that Europe was already in the throes of a development that would quickly swallow any labor surplus: the Industrial Revolution...
...Unaligned strategists say that Romney will undoubtedly continue his stream of "comparison" ads, that his best bet still is to depress McCain votes - a tactic that may work well in Michigan because it's a state where Mike Huckabee will again find a strong base of Evangelical support. The McCain camp, however, vigorously disputes that interpretation. "We're thrilled Huck's on the air in Michigan," one McCain adviser says. "He takes votes away from Romney that we would never...
...Ultimately, though, the creators of Dreaming Republic want to deliver the news in a way that will entertain more than depress. "People are tired of bad news but they need to know what is happening in the country," says Olga Lydia, the show's "special minister" and host. "We present it in a way that people will enjoy and want to watch every week." With millions of Indonesians tuning in, the show's producers hope the country's leaders will develop a sense of humor even as they realize that their decisions are often seen as no laughing matter...