Word: nest
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...months ago. If anything, the fall in stock prices means that now is a better time to start investing our Social Security dollars—the markets’ motto is “buy low, sell high.” Would we have been better off throwing our nest eggs into the NASDAQ when Bush was hawking his plan a year ago, just before it lost over 50 percent of its value...
...their right mind would buy anything else? Smart, self-interested investors would simply keep buying stocks and selling bonds until the gap closed and the future returns disappeared. That’s how markets are supposed to work, at least, and most economists wouldn’t bet the nest egg on their basic theories being wrong...
...Administration calls the Hanssen case a convenient excuse to clean out a growing nest of Russian spies in the U.S. As the number of agents crept back to cold war levels?up 40% since 1995, to 160?the FBI complained of the burden on its counterintelligence teams and its budget. The CIA said tossing out Moscow's agents would only mean the loss of U.S. assets in Russia. Clinton tried to soft-talk Moscow into cutting back but failed; the incoming Bush team was eager...
...challenge next year, made sure politicians from small states got the biggest leg up. "There's raw self-interest, contrasted with the grand rhetoric," groused Jim Bopp, an adviser to the bill's chief opponent, Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell. "Almost everything they've done is to pad their own nest as candidates and protect themselves as incumbent politicians...
...challenge next year, made sure politicians from small states got the biggest leg up. "There's raw self-interest, contrasted with the grand rhetoric," groused Jim Bopp, an adviser to the bill's chief opponent, Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell. "Almost everything they've done is to pad their own nest as candidates and protect themselves as incumbent politicians...