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...losers it owns to try to embarrass CEOs into remedial action. CalPERS and other managers--be they of mutual funds or public or private pension funds--have generally wielded their clout for the good of all. The money, after all, is largely ours. We should cheer as they ferret out clueless CEOs and demand solutions. Indeed, the average CalPERS laggard stock begins outperforming the market once it hits the list. Can't argue with that...
...more dazzling, personal, unorthodox, paradoxic your assumptions (paradoxes are not equivocations), the more interesting an essay is likely to be. (If you have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course--and we all like to be called "assistants," not "graders"--you may be able to ferret out one or two cosmic assumptions of his own; seeing them in your bluebook, he can only applaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders are politically unconcerned, not all are agnostic. This is an older generation, recall. Some may be tired of St. Augustine flattened by a phrase...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "We had a fresh mandate from the voters and a determination to ferret out wasteful spending...We've made it very difficult to allocate pork in the process...
Last week, in a concession to Silicon Valley, the Administration blinked--or perhaps it merely winked. Fittingly, in the arcane world of code making and breaking, it's difficult to ferret out who's doing what to whom...
Fidelity relies on its workaholic culture to ferret out true investment warriors. "Not all the fund companies are that competitive," says Eric Kobren, the publisher of the newsletter Fidelity Insight. "People watch what time the lights go on and off in the office. How often do you get voice mail from your boss at 2 a.m.? It's a very common occurrence at Fidelity. They have a higher degree of competitiveness and a higher degree of obnoxiousness...