Word: outperform
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...order to capture the national championship, Andersen will have to outperform 10 riders...
...American Dream have helped keep his popularity high. But the public takes a hard-headed view of his performance in some areas; 55% think he did a "poor job" in maintaining programs for the needy, and 63% fault him for the deficit. In fact, Americans expect Bush to outperform Reagan on some issues...
...money-management business think that he came through the crash remarkably well, considering the enormous size of the fund he had to handle. Says Barton Biggs, a global strategist for Morgan Stanley: "Lynch is still the most consistent mutual-fund manager in the country, even if he does not outperform the market every time. None of us are supermen in a prolonged bear market." Agrees Anthony Thatcher, a portfolio manager at Scudder Stevens & Clark: "Lynch's reputation, though somewhat tarnished, is not obliterated...
...this dramatic turnaround? "We're doing a better job of getting out the message on how well women's colleges train women for careers," asserts Nicole Reindorf, the WCC's associate director. Graduates of women's colleges, she points out, generally outperform their coed counterparts. For instance, a 1985 survey of 5,000 women's school alumnae found that nearly half had earned graduate degrees (vs. one-third for all graduates from coed institutions). Of women listed in Who's Who in America, women's college alums outnumber coed- school graduates by more than 2 to 1. And the bottom...
...full of gold, the bankers tended to favor bonds and the safest stocks for retirement funds. During the inflation-plagued 1970s, however, many corporations, unions and local governments became unhappy with the returns they were getting on pension money. Increasingly, they turned to mavericks like LeBaron, who promised to outperform the banks by buying and selling a broad range of securities more aggressively...