Word: mirroring
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Unfortunately for the industry, one of the most popular ideas, at least for now, is to have practically no manager at all. Nearly one out of every five new investment dollars is now going into low-cost index funds, which automatically mirror the performance of benchmarks like the Standard & Poor's 500. Already this year $18 billion has flooded into Vanguard, the behemoth that pioneered the practice. Says John Rekenthaler of funds researcher Morningstar. "Indexing is an ongoing challenge that most of the competition is not facing...
...sense a strain of self-contempt these days in English satire? Not self-doubt, of course, and certainly not humility, just a weary roll of the eyes that follows a glance in the mirror? So it seems with Barnes' very funny, very sour new novel, which re-creates England as a theme park on the Isle of Wight. The park is the brainstorm of Sir Jack Pitman, an overweening press lord, and his staff members, one of whom has doubts: "How do we advertise the English...a people widely perceived...as cold, snobbish, emotionally retarded, and xenophobic? As well...
...words that mirror Goff's desires for hislife, he writes that "social science must be tiedto actual social change." While he acknowledgesthat tying together policy with research soclosely could further retard the struggle forD-5GOFFCrimsonMatthew P. MillerPHILLIP A. GOFF...
...whole, however, several people, bothcurrent and former students, say HLS' problems--oflarge classes, a distant faculty and a cutthroatatmosphere--simply mirror similar ones on theundergraduate level...
Secondly, for non-criminal but equally complicated matters, the Ad Board must reform its current subcommittee system to reflect the safeguards afforded by the legal process just as it now reflects the legal system's fact-finding process. Such a body need not necessarily mirror a court, but at the very least, students should be allowed independent representation. Theoretically, the subcommittee should embody principles that make fairness, not education, its top priority. In such a revised system, we would hope that the Ad Board could truly fulfill its goal of being an educational body while at the same time affording...