Word: prospers
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...want to stay in the market, defensive investing simply means sticking with stocks that can hold their own or even prosper in a downturn. Start with basic necessities, like food and drugs. Common sense tells you that even in a recession, people still need to eat and fend off illness. Also, while they may not be able to pay their cable or phone bills, they'll need to keep the lights on. So electric-utility companies are viewed as a good defensive group. Tobacco stocks historically have been viewed, ironically enough, as a safe investment, despite the industry's constant...
...Even in his brief tenure, Lessig has proven that professors who stay on top of surging changes in technology will prosper. As policymakers stumble through the Internet maze, they will increasingly turn to academics like Lessig to be their guides...
...make it truer and truer. Good history matters as much as accurate journalism does. Journalism or history that is corrupted - by laziness, by ideology, by political correctness, by sentimentality, by money - does the work of darkness. Which is to say that, in the absence of truth, bad people prosper...
...here's to the first 800 words of the Constitutional Amendments and beyond. and change "it" to "they" in next sentence. The "it" after that is also they, but the third stays 'it' (refers to leisured self-reflection) May they grow, flourish, prosper. May they facilitate dialogue, as well as leisured self-reflection, in all its frames, between commercial breaks. Here's to the continuity of discourse and a life well and honestly lived, to the eight hundred and first word, to the fifty sixth-and-a-half and to the ten thousandth, and to all that goes unsaid...
...Many of us would feel it hard to approve some beautiful new building when somebody working in it is making $8 to $9 an hour," Braude says. "It's hard to accept the notion that the city in which they live and prosper is able to do this and the wealthiest university in the world...