Word: hauls
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Steven Romick is one of the good guys. He runs a small mutual fund in Los Angeles, FPA Crescent, that prides itself on investing for the long haul. He keeps most of his own money in the Crescent fund, hasn't taken any out since he bought his house seven years ago and turns away would-be market timers at the door. There's no ethical cloud hanging over Romick's fund, but he suspects some people are too scared of funds like his to give it a try. He shakes his head with a disgusted sigh. "Individual investors...
...others. And though we're used to thinking of champagne as delicate, it's often the least of an airline's beverage problems. Apart from a few labels, it's rarely spoiled by travel, and Cathay Pacific has no problems dispatching some of the finest bubbly available for long-haul flights, among them Krug, Cuvee William Deutz 1995 and Billecart-Salmon...
...vehicles in 2000. VW may now face a fan revolt. At the website myvwlemon.com, owners gripe about faulty brake lights, knobs that fall off, clutches that blow after just 96,000 km. VW says many of these problems are minor and that its cars remain solid over the long haul. It's also true that the Internet is home to complaints about almost all car brands. The problem, says Jamie Vondruska, who runs vwvortex.com, is that "VW owners are so attached to their cars, they take it personally when things go wrong...
Another impetus for the board to explore alternative tests is the persistence of gaps in SAT scores between racial and ethnic groups. Here, too, the Rainbow Project shows some promise. On the practical-intelligence portions of the test (the part in which students persuade friends to haul the mattress), there were no differences in scores between groups. On the creative portions, the differences were considerably smaller than they are on the SAT. And in some sections, groups that traditionally fare poorly on standardized tests thrived. Native Americans did especially well on the oral part...
...fields of today's peasants are littered with imperial tombs. Many still hold impossibly valuable works of art buried centuries ago. Breaking into these tombs and stealing the national treasures they hold are illegal, of course. But the lure is too great for many, especially because one major haul, sold to a smuggler, can equal a year's farming income. "For kids here, tomb raiding is just like going to the bar," says Little Su, a Xiaoli doctor who put himself through medical school with the spoils of treasure hunts beneath the fields around his home. "If you're bored...