Word: pour
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Chase hot investments, and you might get burned. Investors typically pour money in at the top--think tech stocks--and mutual-fund companies play along. Now it's bond funds. After three years of solid gains, some experts are calling the peak, yet investors, spooked by stock losses, are still piling in. They moved $63 billion into bond funds this year, a stark change from 2000, when they withdrew $50 billion. Fund companies follow the money, notes Standard & Poor's. While 14% of funds opened in 2000 were bond funds, they are 33% of new funds this year, says FundFiling.com...
...Deputy Chair of the State Duma's Security Committee and an outspoken opponent of the war in Chechnya, warned against just such a response: "Putin seeks to answer the mounting wave of Palestinian-type bombing terror with more terror of his own," he said. "But it will only pour more oil onto the growing fire." Even before the latest bombings, Putin was ratcheting up the pressure. Going back on a pledge to reduce his forces in Chechnya, he sent 1,000 airborne troops and an artillery battalion there last month. Though checkpoints in Grozny had been dismantled in the spring...
...make the link between private virtue and civic virtue and to suspect, based on the meager evidence he could muster about God's will, that these earthly virtues were linked to heavenly ones as well. As he put it in the motto for the library he founded, "To pour forth benefits for the common good is divine...
...parted from his cellular, so that one small sign tells a long story of cultural accommodation. "I mean no disrespect to the locals," says Gawler, "but they're not really as sociable as the expats. They don't get drunk and that. A lot of them come in here, pour themselves a glass of water, read the paper and go away again...
...beat him with a metal pipe, screaming at him to confess that he'd been sent by Pyongyang to foment revolution. "When I passed out, they'd throw ice water on me," recalls Kim, now a frail grandfather. "Or they'd put a wet towel over my face and pour water on it so I couldn't breathe. When I passed out, they'd beat me again...