Word: outperform
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That is exactly what single-sex advocates expected to hear. Roughly speaking, until they reach their teens, American girls outperform boys. Then something changes, and boys push ahead, especially in science. Whether the cause is bias, genes or some combination, no one knows for sure. But if you can just keep the sexes apart for a while, the theory goes, girls at least may benefit. "It's good to have a safe place without the distraction of the opposite sex," says Lewinnek...
...retirements will help finance a wholesale rebuilding effort. Indeed, in its 1998 budget, the Navy is seeking $3 billion to replace the Seawolf with a third generation of nuclear-powered attack submarines. It argues that Russia's fledgling Akula and yet to be built Severodvinsk classes are "projected to outperform today's most advanced Western submarines in many respects." Someone should tell the Navy that the cold war is over...
...were smart enough to know beforehand that domestic stocks are going to outperform all other areas, we would put all our money into that area, but no one's that smart," he said...
While Soros' "macro" fund stalks giant economic trends, Cramer invests and makes his money mostly in U.S. stocks. Roughly half of his $315 million fund is locked down in stocks he believes will outperform the market over the next decade. The other half Cramer and partner Jeff Berkowitz trade every day, with a feverish enthusiasm fired by the glee of making the right bets and the crunching agony of picking a loser. In the course of a day's trading, the firm will be in and out of 50 stocks, betting millions on tiny ticks of the tape. Cramer, whose...
Stansky: Look at what the market has done. Would it have been easy to outperform the market without making huge, concentrated bets since last June? No. Without making an investment in those positions in which fundamentals may have been fine but the stock-price valuations were at five-year highs, and many of them for a while? [No.] So I'm trying to look out one or two years, not trying to play this game for a quarter...