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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nattering nabobs kept their ears open and reported Agnew's verbal misdemeanors of political incorrectness. On a campaign plane, Agnew saw a Japanese-American reporter dozing, and asked someone amiably, "What's the matter with the fat Jap?" Consternation ensued among the ethnically sensitive. Indignation again flared up after Agnew memorably declared, "To some extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all." That thought made it into Bartlett...
...struggled with recently. On the one hand, it has had to contend with disappointing performance; on the other, it has come under criticism for being too unpredictable in its investments. Magellan underperformed because Vinik put an enormous chunk of the fund in bonds, believing that stocks were overvalued. Stocks kept going up, and Magellan's relative return suffered. The results numbers aside, there was the question of what Vinik was doing investing so heavily in bonds in the first place, since Magellan is supposed to be a diversified stock fund...
Johnson is also driving the company well beyond the U.S. In Japan trillions of yen have been figuratively kept under the mattress, locked into low-interest savings accounts. That money is becoming unlocked--and Fidelity wants a piece. In December, Fidelity became the first U.S. company to launch a yen-dominated investment trust in Japan. In Britain defined-contribution plans similar to 401(k)s, as well as mutual funds, are just beginning to take off, and the company is investing heavily...
Large fish, it turns out, are among the most critical of all reef inhabitants, especially herbivores like parrotfish that eat seaweed. Fast-growing seaweed is always threatening to engulf the reefs, but it is usually kept in check by grazing fish. About a decade ago, a team of marine scientists conducted an experiment off the coast of Belize that proves this point. To keep fish out, the researchers surrounded a section of coral the size of a small pasture with a chicken-wire fence. Within 10 weeks, they found, the area inside the fence had been completely overgrown by seaweed...
...American celebrities. The foster home boy became Our Man in Paris. He took Elvis Presley to the Lido. He asked James Thurber what it was like to be blind. Thurber replied, "It's better now. For a long while, images of Herbert Hoover were the only thing that kept popping up in front of me." He got to know Orson Welles, Audrey Hepburn, Lena Horne, Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Somerset Maugham, Danny Kaye, Humphrey Bogart. At Buchwald's wedding to Ann McGarry in 1952, Gene Kelly danced with the bride and Rosemary Clooney toasted the groom...