Word: funded
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...gave photocopiers to Hungary to foster freedom of the press; and he isn't building nuclear weapons or launching terrorist campaigns like some of the other richest men in the world. What is scary is the system which could create a Soros, or others who seem to single-handedly fund the good works of the world...
Pharis J. Harvey, executive director of the International Labor Rights Fund, talked about children forced to work to augment their family's income. He said child labor was a result of "poverty compounded by policy and prejudice...
...need someone that has the appeal that will reach out to all the segments of the student population," Blake said. Along with his running mate Nicholas J. Stone '00, Blake said he advocates lobbying the administration to give 1 percent of the annual College fund to student groups...
Look at how fixated we've become with the daily ups and downs of the Dow--how our hearts race when the market is up and how we sag when the market does. Or look at how we've turned mutual-fund managers like Peter Lynch into celebrities. Most of all, look at the extraordinary extent to which we now rely on stocks to fund our retirement, send our kids to college and allow us to lead the kind of comfortable lives we view as middle class. We believe in the market today with something approaching religious faith...
There are many other people--mutual-fund pioneer Ned Johnson at Fidelity Investments and discount broker Charles Schwab, to name two--who over the course of the next 40 years helped push Wall Street and Main Street closer together. Yet for all their innovations, they remain at bottom Merrill's heirs. Their modern investing mantra is the same basic message he preached so many years ago-- that people should invest for the long haul; that they should have a clear understanding of the companies they are buying; that despite the hair-raising ups and downs, stocks have historically outperformed every...