Word: prowess
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mutual funds run by managers tout their stock-picking prowess. But over the past 12 months, only 40% beat the returns of funds pegged to broad market indexes. And the index funds offer lower fees and taxes. Little wonder they're growing far faster. Consider funds like the Vanguard Index Total Stock Market, pegged to the Wilshire 5000 index. It's less volatile than the S&P 500, and its stocks are not so richly priced...
...paying attention anyway, even when the signs of India's intentions were there to be read. The shock runs up our spine because it happened when the age of nuclear terror seemed over. Now the specter is back. Which country will show off its atomic prowess next? Pakistan is certainly tempted. Is another frightening, nation-wrecking arms race brewing? Will we ever devise effective ways to control the nuclear beast...
...never gone to Turkey and met Dave Hale," he says. "I was loyal to General Hale and to the Army, and they both abused their power." The clue to Hale's gift for easy exits may be contained in the same West Point yearbook entry that cheered his prowess with women and alcohol. It observed that Cadet Dave Hale--much like Major General Dave Hale--had "an expert ability to cover his tracks and a lot of good luck...
...Crimson must have been frustrated by its lack of run production in the first game, because the nightcap witnessed an offensive explosion by Harvard. Couple the hot bats with typical defensive prowess, and you have Harvard in a runaway...
After this overture, one was struck by O'Toole's witty and well-timed delivery of a monologue about his boyhood intellectual prowess (calculating the trajectory and position of the airborne football instead of ducking). In a play full of paradox, the second scene, "The Banality of Evil," concludes smugly with gorgeous poetry...