Word: extols
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What could be more benign than that boy scout of financial instruments, the municipal bond? What town has not floated an issue to build a road? What little old lady (or big mutual fund) has not heard an accountant extol "munis" as the most foolproof of investments? Lending to companies is risky: they fold overnight, leaving squabbling creditors. But municipalities don't disappear from the map; and knowing they will borrow more tomorrow, they will do anything -- even raise taxes-to avoid defaulting today...
...have no life. The only thing that holds me together is my children. But I can't even afford to send my daughter to the dentist for a cavity." Terri is proud that she has never been on welfare, but she feels little kinship with the politicians who extol workers like her. "I feel lost," she says. "Now everything goes up but people's wages. Either you're rich or poor...
...Secretary of State Warren Christopher recovered in the Ottawa hospital where he was being treated for a bleeding stomach ulcer, Hillary Rodham Clinton took the opportunity to extol Canada's $43 billion public health care system as a model for American reform. "There has been a lot of disinformation that has been put out across the border," she said, "so perhaps (Christopher's illness) will give people more of a chance to learn about the system...
...Secretary of State Warren Christopher recovered in the Ottawa hospital where he was being treated for a bleeding stomach ulcer, Hillary Rodham Clinton took the opportunity to extol Canada's $43 billion public health care system as a model for American reform. "There has been a lot of disinformation that has been put out across the border," she said, "so perhaps (Christopher's illness) will give people more of a chance to learn about the system...
...valid as Streisand's social contributions have been, the IOP was not the place for her to extol them. It's not Las Vegas, where her concert sold out last summer at $350 a head...