Word: mutuals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mutual Life Insurance Company, for instance, tried to lure Harvard graduates with the prospect of "$4,000 to $9,000 a year, and more!" in advertisements in campus publications...
Chung and Liu met in June 1996 through mutual business contacts in Hong Kong. It was an easy marriage of interests: Chung, 43, the hustler, was always flashing his Clinton photos and looking for deals; Liu, 39, the daughter of a powerful retired general in the People's Liberation Army, was a lieutenant colonel in the P.L.A. As such, she was a sophisticated member of the elite class of Chinese "princelings"--offspring of communist bosses who are often given control of huge trading companies but who sometimes act independently, not necessarily as agents of a putative China Inc. that masterminds...
...famously avid reader of self-help books, and it shows when he says things like "The Magellan within all of us is going to save us." It's a reference not to mutual funds but to the Portuguese explorer, by way of The Truman Show, which Carrey likes to see as an allegory about self-actualization: "It's a hopeful story. It's about a man who will not be beaten. Presented with a challenge, he becomes the explorer he always wanted to be. In my best scenario, I want to turn out to be Truman Burbank. I want...
...Mutual funds run by managers tout their stock-picking prowess. But over the past 12 months, only 40% beat the returns of funds pegged to broad market indexes. And the index funds offer lower fees and taxes. Little wonder they're growing far faster. Consider funds like the Vanguard Index Total Stock Market, pegged to the Wilshire 5000 index. It's less volatile than the S&P 500, and its stocks are not so richly priced...
...statements says the LL.M. program's philosophy stems from the "conviction that a broad and diversified interchange among American lawyers, legal scholars and law students from other countries will be of mutual benefit...