Word: ince
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...funds are nothing new. But they are getting a lot of attention now. A choppy market like the one we've had this summer is where savvy stock pickers are supposed to excel. There are about 150 big-bet funds, reports fund-research firm Morningstar Inc. That's up from about 100 six years ago. The theory is solid. In any large portfolio, the manager is sure to have favorite stocks--often those on which he has done the best research. Why not double up on those and ditch the rest...
...only part-time consulting work, some of it reviewing documents for law firms (he has a law degree) for $22 an hour--a far cry from the $100,000 or so a year he earned in his last full-time job as director of external relations for EG&G Inc., a big global-technology firm. Even some parts of the Federal Government discriminate, Cottin laments. "Two federal agencies would not even bring me in for an interview. While I fitted the printed profile for the job, I didn't fit the 'internal profile,' which demanded someone younger and cheaper...
...implications. Hurricane Andrew was not merely a wake-up call; it was a stick of dynamite under the pillow. Prior to Andrew, no one envisioned more than $7 billion in insured losses for a single storm. But after Andrew's landfall, Karen Clark, founder of Applied Insurance Research Inc., in Boston, one of a new breed of "catastrophe modelers," sent an audacious message to her clients estimating insured losses at $9 billion. If Andrew proved to be more intense than first estimated, she added, the damages could hit $13.5 billion. "Nobody believed it," she says. A client remarked...
...been manufacturing synthetic high-purity creatine since 1961. We know of no amateur or professional sport in which the use of creatine is banned. Athletes use synthetic creatine to supplement their bodies' natural production of it, increase strength and extend their peak performance. GEORGE HOLSTEIN, President Pfanstiehl Laboratories Inc. Waukegan...
...spun dry and sealed in packages. The result is a safe, wholesome food that consumers can eat with confidence. There has never been a food-borne-illness outbreak traced to triple-washed, packaged salad. Don't alarm consumers unnecessarily. THOMAS J. PERNICE, Vice President Public Affairs Dole Food Co. Inc. Los Angeles...