Word: fonds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pure crystal-ball gazing. The cyclicals could easily fizzle along with, say, the Asian recovery. But what if they don't? Now is a good time to review your portfolio. Odds are that you or the stock pickers at the mutual funds you own have grown a little too fond of technology and big consumer stocks. One quick way to judge: look at your portfolio's return in April. Lose money? That's a sign that you may be overexposed to speculation.com A diverse portfolio would include cyclicals, whose com-like gains last month would have offset weakness...
...Professor of History William E. Gienapp is fond of saying in his "History 1653: Baseball and American Society" lectures, organized baseball will go out of its way to resist change...
Radcliffe "multiplies opportunities" through its unique "dual citizenship" with "value-added" programs that work as an "opportunity, not an obligation," Wilson is fond of saying...
...really. That sugary last sentence, conjuring a toy town in a glass paperweight, doesn't describe Northampton or, fortunately, Kidder's fond but unsentimental book. The author's great gift, in fact, is for looking at his subjects straight on. He did this impressively in The Soul of a New Machine (1981), about the development of a supermini-computer, and in House (1985), about the jostling interchanges among architect, builders and buyers of a private home...
...short, she charmed audiences with her unvarnished manner. Clearly, she had a similar effect on her subjects--a group of now single senior citizens living on Manhattan's Lower East Side--who speak with touching candor here about love and loss in the years when middle age is a fond memory. Ibi never patronizes these men and women; she just allows them to wish--and be wistful...