Word: outperform
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...quarrel I do. When friends call to ask which mutual fund to plunge into, I make the following speech: "It's great that you're thinking about stocks," I say, "because, over the long run, stocks will outperform safer investments. And it's great that you've decided to go the mutual-fund route, because that's almost always wiser than picking the stocks yourself. (Do yourself a favor, though," I remind them, "and choose a fund with low annual expenses and no sales fee.) But are you sure now is the time to jump in? Now, when stocks...
...findings showed that in some ways the American public school classroom is a feminine domain. Nearly three-quarters of teachers are women. Though the sexes do equally well in math and science grades, girls outperform boys overall. In verbal skills, girls move into the lead around Grade 5 or 6 and thereafter do better than boys in writing and, by most measures, reading. Females constitute less than a third of students identified as emotionally disturbed or learning disabled. Despite teen pregnancies, girls are less likely to drop out of high school and more likely to attend college...
...what's the problem? For one thing, there is a gap in scores on standardized tests, especially in math and science, which the report blames partly on lingering bias in both testing and curriculum. On Advanced Placement tests, which enable students to earn college credit during high school, boys outperform girls in math, physics and biology. On the SAT test, that ubiquitous measure of alleged merit, in 1991 boys beat girls by 8 points in the verbal score and 44 points in math...
Statistical evidence of the parochial system's success is striking. James Coleman, a University of Chicago sociologist, has found that Catholic high school students outperform their public school counterparts in reading, vocabulary, mathematics and writing. The dropout rate in Catholic high schools was less than 4%, he discovered, compared with more than 14% in public schools. Black or Hispanic students are three times as likely to graduate in four years as their public school counterparts. Some 83% of the graduates go to college, in contrast to 52% of those from public school...
Invest in the stock market, if you have money you can afford to put away for the long term, because over the long term, stocks always outperform safer investments. But do your investing indirectly, through no-load mutual funds. Don't try to guess when children will stop murdering their playmates for Nikes or when overcapacity in the used auto-parts market will be sopped up -- let a pro guess for you. Don't try to be nimble or quick; try to be patient...