Word: favorable
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Companies are asking, cajoling, even paying people to ditch paper--and it's working. Two years ago, 13% of us got credit-card statements online only; today, 24% do. But as we stop holding that information in our hands once a month in favor of glancing at account balances on our computers or cell phones moments before we buy, could we be losing the big picture of where all the money goes...
...Skeptics claim that statistics such as these are biased in favor of equities because they are derived solely from long-term U.S. data. But the excellent historical returns of stocks are not limited to the U.S. Three U.K. economists - Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh and Mike Staunton - have examined the historical stock and bond returns from 16 countries since 1901 and published their research in a book entitled Triumph of the Optimists: 101 Years of Global Investment Returns. Despite wars, bouts of hyperinflation and depressions, stock investors in all 16 countries examined enjoyed high returns that outpaced fixed-income assets...
...energized the crowd when he drove down the right baseline and dunked to make it 4-2 in favor of the Crimson, and Harvard later went on a seven-point run to take a 17-10 lead—capped by a Webster three with 12:46 to go. But the Bulldogs wouldn’t go away without a fight, cutting the deficit to 17-16 two minutes later...
...thought we had a really good race,” said lightweight senior coxswain Dexter Louie. “The weather was a litte bit windy, which tends to favor heavyweights. But the guys and I feel like we had a pretty good rhythm...
...tide changed in favor of the Crimson in the following frame, as St. Lawrence committed three consecutive errors...