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...diversify immediately. Remember, your most valuable asset--your career--is also tied to the health of your firm. If you're over age 55, your employer may allow you to sell some of its stock held in your 401(k), so be sure to ask. In your taxable accounts, lean toward diversified mutual funds, or individual stocks in at least six industries--and avoid the one in which you work. If you are concentrated in a single stock in a taxable account--and are not wealthy enough to join a swap fund--you'll have to pay capital-gains...
Pratt says market forces have made Yale University Press lean toward trade books, but not at the cost of academic monographs...
...Billy Blanks' World Training Center in Sherman Oaks, Calif., is flooded with the ragged sounds of Rob Base & D.J. E-Z Rock and human agony. Teeth clenched, sweat dripping, 150 men and women kick out their right feet, then bow at the waist and kick back their left feet. "Lean, guys, lean!" commands Blanks, as he demonstrates the move from a stage emblazoned with the message GOD IS GOOD. He then adopts a fighter's stance, and on cue the class punches left, right, left! Walking amid the flailing limbs, Blanks holds his palms out to the hail of fists...
...blue overcoat, walked around the block and, coming back to the Court, stopped to listen to the picketers who gathered daily to protest abortion, some carrying signs that accused him of mass murder. He had respect and compassion for them. They never noticed him, the small lean bespectacled man with gray hair; his humility shielded him. Then he walked up the steps under the EQUAL JUSTICE UNDER LAW inscription, went in to his office and resumed reading the law, which was his work...
...those used to adorn and enhance them. He emphasized that upon close scrutiny it is evident that some frames are decorated by architectural motifs like columns pediments, and arches thereby aesthetically representing their utilitarian role; some like Vasari's "The Musicians," act as a window through which the protagonists lean...