Word: ditto
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...House officials noted that when their boss and Tony Blair answered the same questions, the Prime Minister's responses always seemed so much more honed and complete. And it wasn't just the accent. In the future, quipped an aide, the President should just follow his counterpart by saying, "Ditto." After Blair's visit here last week, Bush might want to give him some kind of cabinet post for that purpose. Though his six-hour stop was the diplomatic equivalent of a drive-through, Blair threw a lifeline to the President, reminding Americans in a way that Bush has been...
...House officials noted that when their boss and Tony Blair answered the same questions, the Prime Minister's responses always seemed so much more honed and complete. And it wasn't just the accent. In the future, quipped an aide, the President should just follow his counterpart by saying, "Ditto...
...this raises an interesting question: What if the pirates win? If you play the thought experiment out to its logical extreme, the body count is high. After all, you can't have an information economy in which all information is free. The major music labels would disappear; ditto the record stores that sell their CDs. The age of millionaire rock stars would be over; they would become as much a historical curiosity as the landed aristocracy is today. Instead, musicians would scratch out a living on the touring circuit, since in an age of free music the only commodity they...
...shape or form," says bond specialist Marilyn Cohen, head of Envision Capital Management in Los Angeles. What you can do is capture most of the yield of long-term bonds by sticking with a portfolio or fund of intermediate-term bonds (five-to 12-year maturity). Ditto for one-year bank CDs (now yielding about 2.1%) to five-year CDs (3.7%). "You don't want to bet against the economy for too many years," says Cohen...
...market has defied the economic slump, so have the stocks of homebuilders, home-renovation stores and mortgage lenders. But is it time to dump these stocks? Fund manager Ron Muhlenkamp says Lowe's, whose stock has risen 42% in the past 12 months, no longer looks like a bargain. Ditto for sub-prime lenders like Countrywide, which may be hit hard by the upturn in mortgage delinquencies, says portfolio manager David Dreman. However, Dreman says, big lenders such as Fannie Mae, which have less exposure to risky credit, should continue to perform well. Homebuilder stocks such as Centex and Pulte...