Word: onslaughts
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That's because companies with shareholders' interests at heart typically close their funds before they get too big and unmanageable. Yet with the price of stocks plummeting and an onslaught of investors asking for their money back, many funds aren't nearly the size they once were - so they're taking on fresh investors. A number of portfolio managers, especially the value-conscious sort, are also seeing cheap stocks all over the place and want extra money to buy in. One of the reasons Longleaf Partners reopened earlier this year was that its managers had identified some $1.5 billion worth...
While we were talking, a filthy young man in rags approached and started distractedly unpicking the threads of a knitted woollen cap. Diar introduced "Adam," whose entire family had been cut down in front of him in 2004. Something snapped. Adam was convinced another janjaweed onslaught was imminent, and told me he was getting terrible headaches from the janjaweed horsemen galloping around in his head. He asked if I could give him a lift to his home village. "It's the time of mangoes and guavas," he said. Watching him wander off, Diar told me Adam was obsessed by memories...
...taking the lead, 2-1. Harvard spent the rest of the period trying to make a comeback. After killing a penalty of its own, the Crimson offense turned up the heat on the Bears, drawing a Brown holding penalty. Harvard missed its chances to convert, but the Crimson onslaught wore the Bears down, allowing Harvard to even the score during another power play, 2-2. After trading passes with sophomore Matt McCollem, Fraser released the puck to McCafferty, who launched a shot into the top right corner of the net for the score. Forty-one seconds into the third period...
...half years for a labor leader. Six-and-a-half years for five Buddhist monks. Two years for a poet. In the space of just three days this week, more than 30 Burmese were sentenced to prison or hard labor by the country's ruling junta, a chilling legal onslaught that sent a clear message to other potential dissidents: speak out, and get used to life in a prison cell...
...There's the final whistle and with that Harvard crushes Columbia in an offensive onslaught. Also, Yale's still beating Brown...