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...oddest beneficiary of all this attention is preferred stocks, whose market has been shrinking until recently. Like the centaurs and griffins of Greek mythology, "preferreds" are a peculiar blend of two beasts. Like bonds, preferred shares usually pay high current income--dividends that lately pay up to 9% or 10% (that's good). On the other hand, like common stocks, preferreds have only a junior claim on assets if a company goes bust--so in a bankruptcy you could be left with nothing (that...
...football in the Ivy League also has “peculiar competitive considerations,” he said...
...morally and economically peculiar place about course enrollments. Institutionally we support catalog shopping, by printing, at considerable expense, both the Courses of Instruction and the CUE Guide, complete with instructor ratings. But live shopping is frowned upon, in spite of the familiarity we all have with the differences between catalog descriptions and the real products. The argument that one can’t begin teaching for a week because of shopping period seems odd, given that it is the instructor and not the student who is giving the lectures, assigning the homework and recording the grades. Shopping...
Many critics of the strength of the anti-war movement say the peculiar circumstances around the war itself are to blame...
...England's Watford who was traded to AC Milan for $1 million in 1983. After one disappointing season, he returned to England and obscurity. Now Luther Blissett is back in the headlines as the author of Q (Heinemann; 635 pages), a novel of vast inventiveness, remarkable erudition and highly peculiar origins. First published in Italy in 1999, the book has become a best seller from Austria to Argentina. The British edition appeared earlier this month, and negotiations are now under way for one in the U.S. But Luther Blissett the footballer didn't write a word of Q. His name...