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...similar layering effect happens in the pension-fund corner of the financial world. Workers entrust their savings to trustees, who hire professional managers, who allot their assets among professional-inves tment firms, so that the investment firms can in turn allot them among various stocks and bonds. And there's a whole subindustry of pension-fund consultants who get paid to tell the managers which investment firms to allot their assets among...
...think the majority of the people voted on the wrong issues," she said. "They voted on whether she is a good person or whether she was responsible. That's not the issue. The issue should have been whether we wanted to continue to entrust in her the decision-making power of the association...
...friend Albert Memo, a retired electronics technician, remains content to entrust the future to Fidel. "We have a government we like," he says. Cubans know capitalism, "and we don't want it." But if Castro says Cubans have to do things differently, Memo will go along. He leans back and reminisces: "I am exactly the same age as Fidel, 67. When you meet him, he is so impressive. When he talks, you really trust him, you would follow whatever he decides to do. I love him. Everyone loves...
...battle to be waged in the next days and weeks could decide the fate of Russia for decades. Yeltsin is asking an exhausted, impoverished people to entrust their future as a democratic, free-market country to him and to depose the neocommunist forces who cling to the politics and economics of the past. No one knows if the opposition has become too strong for him to overcome. Or if a populace worn out by political crisis would answer the President's call. Or what the Russian military, itself split, would do if the stalemate worsened...
...some monolithic umbrella institution run by an oligarchic cabal, which unilaterally decide all its policies. Rather, AAA is a single organization of 600 students, separate from all the other Asian ethnic groups, who in the interest of expediency entrust a diverse body of 14 students to carry out the 20 or so events AAA holds every year. And in many cases, like the protest during Junior Parents' Weekend, AAA must act quickly and boldly in order to insure that the voices of Asian American students are heard. This is one of the main purposes of having an elected board...