Word: keeping
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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Retail investors may still be cool to the stock market, keeping much of their savings in cash equivalents, but they are warmly embracing a relatively new investing tool - exchange-traded funds, or ETFs - hoping to find growth in a ho-hum market and keep costs down...
...only three sure things in life, Benjamin Franklin should have said, are death, taxes and campaign-finance reform. Trying to keep money out of politics is like trying to keep a basement dry in New Orleans...
...Donnell said that prior to the volunteers’ arrival, the library systems in the three Caluco schools were either non-existent or severely lacking, with only a few dozen books—most of them tattered—and a mere notebook to keep track of circulation...
...Home sales last year increased in value 80% over 2008, according to the National Bureau of Statistics. That pace has slowed in recent weeks as buyers like Chen are now looking for government intervention. In late December, Premier Wen Jiabao promised action to help keep housing prices in check. "As the property market is recovering rapidly this year, housing prices in some cities are rising too fast, which deserves the great attention of the central government," he told Xinhua, the state-run news service. During Thursday's press conference announcing the 2009 GDP numbers, Ma too acknowledged that "the price...
...government can gently deflate it is an open question. Beijing's past efforts to control housing prices have been unsuccessful, says Shanghai-based economist Andy Xie. One flaw is that local governments rely on land sales for about one-third of their revenue, which gives them an incentive to keep prices high. "Somehow, the market keeps going up," Xie says. "People think the government is not sincere about tightening. How would the biggest beneficiary let the price fall...