Word: leibowitz
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...Oedipal references?) She was petite, had lovely chestnut-colored hair, deep brown eyes, a smile that wrinkled the corners of her eyes and mouth. She pronounced the "x" in "Mexico" the way you're supposed to say the "J" in "Juan," took photographs with more gusto than Annie Leibowitz and played a mean game of cards...
...range of stocks that makes it less risky. The open-end funds are run much like the highly successful institutional funds, which are focused on the long term, engage in limited trading to keep costs down and avoid anything exotic. "There won't be any big surprises," says Martin Leibowitz, the firm's chief investment officer and a friend of John Bogle, the penny-pinching chief at fund company Vanguard...
Taking a cue from Bogle, Leibowitz's funds have some of the lowest expense ratios anywhere: the domestic stock funds' ratios are under 0.5% of assets, in contrast to about 1.4% for the average comparable fund. Another plus is the funds' low minimum investments of $250 (only $25 if you set up automatic withdrawal...
Republic columnist David Leibowitz, a former Arpaio cheerleader, says he had a change of heart after examining details surrounding the death of an inmate who suffocated in 1996 while locked into a restraining chair with a towel over his head. Arpaio says he wants a jail visit to be a miserable experience; critics note that three-fourths of his inmates can't make bail and haven't even had a trial...
...then there is the other trend. Religious rightists, especially those settlers who are wedded to the Greater Israel of the Bible, have ceased to see any value in the secular state as such. As the late Israeli philospher Yeshayahu Leibowitz noted, religious rightists are too often incapable of distinguishing "between the Jewish people as the bearer of Judaism and the sovereign state instituted by this people as its intrument of self-government...