Word: fab
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...part of the growing importance of individual investors, who want easy, flexible, low-cost diversification. For now, all the action in tradable, pre-fab stock portfolios is with index funds, which are more readily priced tick by tick because they hold the same stocks a long time. Eventually, though, actively managed mutual funds will be continuously priced--and actively traded...
...most unexpected is the appearance in the top slot of a song that not only was not a hit, but has rarely if ever been covered by anyone else: The John Lennon autobiographical reverie "In My Life," from the Beatles' "Rubber Soul," widely considered to be one of the Fab Four's first forays beyond standard boy-girl preoccupations. As if to counterbalance Lennon's contribution, "Here, There and Everywhere" comes in at number four, its killer modulation a reminder that as the two composers diverged (in spite of the pro forma "Lennon/McCartney" credit), McCartney did more than just hold...
Park, Lord and screenwriter Karey Kirkpatrick stocked Chicken Run with a cross section of Brit types: Bunty (Imelda Staunton) is bossy; silly Babs (Jane Horrocks, who played Bubble on Ab Fab) is forever knitting--when she gets morose, she knits a noose. Mac (Lynn Ferguson) is the nearsighted soul of Scottish ingenuity. Fowler (Benjamin Whitrow), a crusty veteran of the RAF, says Yanks can't be trusted: "always late for every war." The hens' lines to the outside world are Nick (Timothy Spall) and Fetcher (Phil Daniels), two music-hall Cockney rats--larcenists with a soft streak...
...Peters described his new role model for professional women: the "icon woman." He noted that she does work that is exciting, relevant and, yes, cool. I do that too. I am also an "in your face" adventurer, and I create scintillating projects on the Web. I have a fab personal website. Call me Icon...
...hired on the Web. She is trained on the Web. She creates and conducts scintillating projects on the Web via a far-flung "virtual" stable of teammates (most of whom she's never met). She manages her career and reputation-building efforts on the Web. And she has a fab personal website...