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...happen to the market is that it will fall another 15% or 20% and then trade sideways, perhaps for several years. That is what happened from 1965 to 1981.There were peaks and troughs during that stretch and clearly traders made money on those. But, it was a particularly poor period for long-term investors who wanted to buy and hold. (See pictures of the top ten scared traders...
...especially when we are young,” Kim added. Allen Yang ’11, an officer in the Harvard-Radcliffe Chinese Student Association, applauded the choice of Kim and the response by the Dartmouth community. “I think the message was written in poor taste,” he said. “But I have faith that the Dartmouth community knows that this sort of joke is just not as effective in this age of diversity.” On the day the e-mail was sent out, interns from Dartmouth?...
...country's consumers and corporations. Zhang Ping, head of the National Development and Reform Commission, outlined an infrastructure-heavy program that includes $219 billion for roads, railways and other transportation, $146 billion for recovery from disasters including the Sichuan earthquake, $58 billion for improving housing for the poor, $54 billion for rural development programs, $54 billion to boosting technology and innovation at Chinese corporations and $30 billion for energy saving and anti-pollution measures. Health care will get $22 billion, less than 5% of the total...
Brazilian devotion to the Catholic Church has declined over the past several years. Whereas Brazil was once an almost entirely Catholic nation, only 74% of Brazilians today admit allegiance to Rome, with large numbers, especially the urban poor, having defected to Protestant Evangelical sects. Many more water down their Catholicism with dashes of African religions such as Candomble or spiritist beliefs such as Kardecism. Only recently has the decrease in Catholic affiliation seemingly leveled...
...refer to Castro as his "father." (Fidel, 82 and ailing, has since ceded power to his younger brother Raúl.) Today, oil-rich Venezuela sends Cuba discounted crude in exchange for doctors and teachers to administer Chávez's wide-ranging social programs among his nation's poor. Pedro Mena, a self-described Venezuelan opposition organizer in Miami, says the outreach by the Cuban-American lawmakers on Capitol Hill has helped bring attention to Venezuela's "inundation by the communist dictatorship in Cuba...