Word: flooded
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...studies suggest otherwise. As a fund becomes successful, it quickly begins to underperform its potential, even though it may keep outperforming its peers, according to Jonathan Berk, a business professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and Richard Green, a business professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Why? Investors inevitably flood a winning fund with cash until the manager runs out of ideas and can no longer invest as profitably as before. So it pays to get on board early...
...much pent-up demand," says Jennifer Fox, managing director of the Hotel Inter-Continental Hong Kong, where, as at any Asian hotel, the crisis over severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) has induced an uneasy stasis. "Once the World Health Organization's travel advisory is lifted, we'll get a flood of corporate travelers in one hit." As luck would have it, the very next day Fox got her wish about the travel advisory on Hong Kong. No word yet, though, on a surge of road warriors...
...judge’s findings met widespread disgust in Moorestown, where residents sent a flood of letters to their local newspaper denouncing Hornstine as “selfish, unappreciative” and “whiny...
...Iranian oil, and the U.S. joined them. No international oil company would buy Iran's oil. The Iranians had no independent system for delivering it. They had no technical skills to produce it, since the British had long relegated Iranian workers to menial jobs. Even when Mossadegh threatened to flood the world with half-price oil, he was able to deliver only a trickle because of the economic blockade. As the Iranian government withered, the Eisenhower Administration cut off foreign aid. Unrest followed, and angry citizens took to the streets. This prompted suggestions that the communists were coming, even though...
...University press release issued last month attributed the reversal in policy in part to logistical concerns over a flood of applications...