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Television has followed a similar pattern. A few years ago, led by the TLC hit Trading Spaces, came a new breed of home-makeover shows that were really homeowner-makeover shows. A designer would look into your soul and give you a living room that expressed your true nature--all on a $1,000 budget! Now TV is giving out new wardrobes, new lifestyles, new careers and even new noses in an onslaught of makeover series that use reality TV's titillation and tear jerking to offer a new you, vicariously, dozens of times a week...
...Determining a political pattern in the violence in Iraq is certainly difficult. But when a U.S. armored vehicle is taken out in the streets of downtown Baghdad by a rocket-propelled grenade fired from the sunroof of a passing SUV - and the event is considered commonplace - there's plainly an insurgency at work. U.S. forces in and around Baghdad are under constant attack, and when there are no American casualties those attacks often go unreported. While attacks have come in the form of sniper fire, roadside bombs and mines, ambushes and close-range gunfire, the weapon of choice among those...
...problems she’s facing have been a pattern,” she said. “This is definitely a step in the right direction...
...does this pattern occur? Small companies are more focused domestically, and typically the U.S. is the first to emerge from a global slump. Small stocks also tend to get hit hardest in a recession as investors move to the safety of blue chips, so small stocks have more room to bounce back as the recovery takes hold and investors broaden their holdings. "When you are coming out of a tough economy and off a market bottom, the cyclical recovery in earnings tends to be strongest with small caps," says Jack Laporte, president of the T. Rowe Price New Horizons fund...
...pattern of small-cap outperformance appears to be holding this time around. The recession probably ended 18 months ago, and on cue, small stocks have outperformed the overall stock market since then. If you're thinking it might be too late to buy them, it isn't. Small stocks are 20% cheaper than large stocks, based on historical price-to-book and price-to-sales comparisons, says Steven Desanctis, director of small-cap research at Prudential Securities. Small-cap funds have seen inflows the past two months after outflows in March. So momentum is building, and we have...