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...been amply rewarded. "Measured against where all the money was 10 years ago--in banks--they've done great," says Robert Schmidt, president of Individual Investor Group, a financial-magazine publisher. He's right. Even bottom-tier funds in the '80s and '90s have been good enough to embarrass bank CDs, the likely repository for savings that aren't in stocks. Still, people left CDs for a reason. Having correctly made that tough decision years ago, they should not be grateful now for lackluster results. Even though their money on the whole has more than tripled in stock funds...
Whoever that is may have a job on his or her hands, as Bibro admits to never having tried Japanese food. And one wouldn't want to embarrass one's hosts by putting wasabi...
...Judy show that passes for political discourse; suppose they sit down in January and decide to grapple with entitlements, with Bob Dole playing a key role in the process (as Wendell Willkie did after 1940 in combatting America's isolationist tradition). Suppose the disclosures about campaign finances finally embarrass the two parties enough to create the climate for real reform...
Overall, the Crimson didn't embarrass itself too much considering the school spends approximately $2,737 on each male athlete and $2,181 for each female. Not terrific, but definitely not in Cornhusker territory...
...Rowlands steered to the Star by Republicans out to embarrass Clinton? "Obviously it's not impossible," says editor in chief Phil Bunton. "But we saw nobody else's fingerprints on this story but hers." One thing that made him doubt any political motives was her naivete. Rowlands didn't know what jobs Clinton aides like Leon Panetta and George Stephanopoulos held, and had misspelled their names in her diaries...