Word: junked
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Skittish, postbubble investors are shying away from bonds that are of investment grade but only barely--what you might call near junk--so these bonds are a good buy now, offering 9.5% or so yields in intermediate maturities. But seek safety in numbers, says Payden. Choose a fund that holds at least 75 or so different bonds rated no lower than Ba. Even if one or two of the bonds sink, you don't go down with them...
...core sex.) The Hong Kong film form, already pretty robust and raunchy, went heedlessly, fearlessly nuts. Soon Cat III was not just a rating but a two-headed genre - and not just a genre but a style - that a many directors executed with cunning and brio. Sure there was junk, but amid the turgid, demeaning stuff were films that provoked astonishment and exultation. ?They can do this!?? gave way to ?They do it so well...
...about a year’s time, the people of Massachusetts will have a chance to junk this failed theory of bilingual education, which has never worked anywhere on a large scale in the United States of America, and switch to something that does work: intensive English immersion,” he said...
Meanwhile, what's a multichannel-TV addict to do? Junk his cable box and join the switchers? Or steer clear of the stormy satellite business until the skies clear...
...mail downloads much more quickly from the company's Hotmail server, although there is still a slight lag. When I tested MSN 8, I was pleasantly surprised that less than a third of the spam I received landed in my In box; the rest was automatically funneled to the junk mailbox. MSN 8 also provides automated virus checking and full-text search for messages in your In box. AOL 8's mail, on the other hand, is mostly playing catch-up; the program only now auto-completes addresses after you type in the first few letters (something MSN has done...