Word: downrightness
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...Typical stocks in Russia and South Korea trade at just eight times next year's projected earnings. That's less than half the developed world's P/E ratio. A broad mix of emerging-market stocks--most easily available through mutual funds--is up 3% for the year, a downright gaudy figure next to the S&P 500's decline of 21%. Any long-term portfolio should have 3% to 5% of assets in emerging markets. I would go even higher now (6% to 8%), given the malaise hanging over the developed world...
...another subject--gays and lesbians--LaHaye's views are not just eccentric but downright odious. In his 1978 book The Unhappy Gays--which even today LaHaye calls "a model of compassion"--he wrote that homosexuality is "vile" and that gays share 16 pernicious traits, which include "incredible promiscuity," "deceit," "selfishness," "vulnerability to sadism-masochism" and "poor health and an early death." He wondered who was more "cruel and inhuman"--those who accept gays even though they are so unhappy or "those who practiced Old Testament capital punishment" on gays...
...Well, yes and no. When Anne Bernays and Justin Kaplan decided to write a joint memoir of their lives in the 1950s, they found plenty of differences. That was the decade of McCarthyism, The Lonely Crowd, "I Like Ike" and Sputnik, and of manners and mores that now seem downright quaint. But in Back Then: Two Lives in 1950s New York (Morrow), Bernays and Kaplan (who are wife and husband) also found lines of continuity with the present, and the roots of who they are today...
...agreed to do it again in the speech. But his critics continue to assail him, with few specifics. Much of this has been done without the standards one would hope for from an academic community. Disappointingly, the debate has at times descended into ill-informed and downright false character assassination. Many of those criticizing him have not taken the time to contact him, to ask questions, to find out facts. He has been called everything from “an apologist for men who do great evil” to “a fundraiser for Hamas...
...agreed to do it again in the speech. But his critics continue to assail him, with few specifics. Much of this has been done without the standards one would hope for from an academic community. Disappointingly, the debate has at times descended into ill-informed and downright false character assassination. Many of those criticizing him have not taken the time to contact him, to ask questions, to find out facts. He has been called everything from “an apologist for men who do great evil” to “a fundraiser for Hamas...