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...here or perform a thyroid-massaging chin tuck there. She urges noncompetition, with oneself ("However you do the posture today is how you should do the posture") and with others ("How can you compare yourself to your neighbor? You don't have the same body!"). Her monologue becomes a mantra, returning my oft-wandering focus back to the pose I'm attempting. Where is my center of balance? Can I feel my spine stretch if I imagine my head and tailbone pulling in opposite directions? How does my alignment shift when I turn my foot three degrees to the right...
...here or perform a thyroid-massaging chin tuck there. She urges noncompetition, with oneself ("However you do the posture today is how you should do the posture") and with others ("How can you compare yourself to your neighbor? You don't have the same body!"). Her monologue becomes a mantra, returning my oft-wandering focus back to the pose I'm attempting. Where is my center of balance? Can I feel my spine stretch if I imagine my head and tailbone pulling in opposite directions? How does my alignment shift when I turn my foot three degrees to the right...
...domestic-only mantra springs mainly from three sources: torrid appreciation of U.S. stocks in the '90s, a measurably closer correlation between U.S. and international stocks on the whole, and an important study last year showing that correlations are tightest in bear markets--meaning that diversification doesn't insulate you much just when you need it most. So why bother...
...gossip. I even went to a few keg parties. Still, we career switchers didn't quite fit in. We had outgrown our college-age antics. Instead of joining our younger classmates for late-Thursday bar nights, we opted for a sedate viewing of ER before bed. We replaced their mantra, "Highest score rocks," with our own: "Lowest pass wins." We worked hard but opted for some balance in our lives...
...cooler heads prevailed, people might have also noticed that no Social Security system would be able to pay the full returns from its investments. During the campaign, Bush repeated the mantra that even safe investments could get better returns than the Social Security trust fund—rock-solid government bonds paid out more money! Why not liberate Americans from the shackles of Social Security and let them make their own investments? But few seemed to ask why the trust fund, which invests everything it has in government bonds, has a lower rate of return than the bonds it holds...