Word: mantras
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...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...
...turned out, his worst fears were almost realized. The focus on nature?a dramatically spotlit palm, perhaps?had started to shift: fairy lights began appearing on trees. Resorts started to charge for little extras. New employees weren't imbued with the Zecha mantra of "creative service." Since his return in October, however, Zecha?who now has full management control of Amanresorts, while the firms of two longtime friends control parent company Silverlink Holdings?has been on a mission to re-instill some of the lost passion. "The changes were less physical and more philosophical," he says. "Not everyone...
...Jung as a popular South Korean president elected on promises of pursuing reunification with the Stalinist holdout to the North. Some Bush people were even whispering a comparison to Israel's deposed prime minister Ehud Barak, suggesting that Kim was pursuing peace with undue haste. Still, while the Bush mantra on the Middle East has been (as a corrective to Clinton) "We can't want peace more than the parties themselves," on the Korean peninsula they may be in danger of finding themselves wanting peace less than the very South Korean people they're ostensibly there to protect...