Word: loads
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...plan delay. To some it makes little sense to postpone the health plan if it is going to make up a large part of the budget. But many Democrats, even in the Administration, agree that Clinton is oversubscribed. And on Friday the President added one more brick to his load; a government takeover of the student-loan program, which will lower collegians' interest rate 0.5% but cost 25 billion Republican-lambastable dollars over five years...
...People Who Love Them." Clinton's desire to accomplish five or six major legislative initiatives this year galvanized Democrats in Congress, Cabinet officers and White House aides into intervening with the policy-addicted President. A show of force, went the thinking, might budge Clinton into lightening his legislative load. Otherwise, Clinton's many cherished proposals might all go the way of his defunct economic-stimulus package...
...better off deciding what portion of your money you really intend for the long term, and then investing it yourself in two or three no-load mutual funds, or even just an S&P index fund. You, too, will do about average each year, and save most of that...
...even without the 3% wrap fee, people who've never invested in the market before shouldn't start now, at least not in any big way. But if you do start now, remember two things: 1) you can get professional management and diversification through mutual funds; 2) buy no-load funds, the ones that charge no sales fee (whether up front or in hidden "12b-1" fees). They do just as well, on average, as the funds that do charge sales fees...
...Wynn's departure from Atlantic City was perfect: within a few months the overbuilt resort began a long slide. By then, Wynn was already focused on his plans for the Mirage in Las Vegas. To build the 3,000-room hotel, he pushed the company's total 1990 debt load to more than $1 billion. He spend $45 million to build a golf course exclusively for high rollers that he lined with 21,000 pine trees trucked in from California and Arizona. The risk paid off: in 1991, the Mirage's second year, operating cash flow hit $201 million...