Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Want to jump into this group with me? First, make sure you can handle the pain that's going to come before the gain. Understand that a lot of investors who took capital gains earlier this year are going to be looking to offset those gains with losses between now and year's end, for tax purposes. They're going to sell some of their losers, including oil-service stocks. So while these stocks are attractive now--otherwise, remember, insiders wouldn't be buying--their prices might well go lower before they go higher. Decide how much you want...
...stocks since 1994. The major averages are up for the year, but thousands of stocks are well below their highs, and dozens of aggressive-growth stock funds are showing losses. All of them are candidates to be sold down even further so that investors can realize their losses to offset gains...
...deputy chief economist at the bank First Chicago NBD. These gradual earnings gains might signal an increase in inflation, because compensation makes up the bulk of most employers' expenses. But the glory of the economy today is its remarkable balance. While labor costs are indeed rising, they are largely offset by the growing productivity of American workers, who are among the most efficient in the world. And although the strong dollar curbs U.S. exports, particularly to Asia, it also drives down the prices of imports, from clothing to cars and cameras, and thereby keeps inflation under control...
...your child is accepted at Princeton, you're doubly lucky. Not only is it an elite university, but in January, Princeton announced it would begin to dip into its endowment (the nation's fourth richest, valued at nearly $5 billion) specifically to help students from middle-income families offset more of its $33,040 annual price tag. Since then, Yale, Stanford and M.I.T. have announced similar plans...
...bold, black letters of tabloid headlines, offset by the stark white of the paper beneath, unrelentingly flash their news before the bustling traffic of the London subways. The story is the murder of Stephen Lawrence, a young black high school student killed five years ago at a bus stop allegedly by five white...