Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Success Story. In Miami, the Herald ran a classified ad: "Gold mine, get rich quick and retire early, 100% profit, very lucrative business. Reason for selling: business bankrupt...
...thirsting and panting for water." Pakistan cried that India's huge irrigation and water-development schemes would turn millions of Pakistani acres into a dust bowl. When India abruptly cut off the waters of one canal system for a month, a Pakistani leader threatened invasion, shouted: "Better a quick, glorious death than a slow, lingering...
...entire industry. When M.I.T. was founded in 1924, it startled the financial world with a brand new idea. Until then, the investment field had been dominated by "closed-end" investment companies; they sold a specific number of their own shares that were traded in the open market, concentrated on quick profits. M.I.T. shunned the lure of the fast profit, concentrated on long-term gains. More important, it threw out the closed-end idea by continually selling shares to anyone who wanted to buy, redeeming them when anyone wanted out at the net asset value per share on the day they...
...attraction of the mutual fund to dealers and salesmen alike is the hefty "load" charge, or commission, usually 71% to 81% (compared with the 1% commission for round-lot purchases on the New York Stock Exchange). Many a customer howls when told of it. But the funds have a quick rejoinder: they argue that the charge includes the cost of selling out as well as buying, is the price of broad diversification and professional management. If an investor with $4,200 (the average size of a mutual fund holding) tried to buy a diversified portfolio of stocks...
...their environment and culture as any of Author Undset's bedeviled Norwegians. For them, too, "man is distant, but God is near." In The Miller, a baffled man expresses his outrage at the approach of death by browbeating his timid wife, who runs "to serve him with quick, fluttering movements like those of a frightened hen"; in The Sinner, a lifetime of hard work and small returns explodes in passion when a sharecropper runs off with another woman, then humbly comes home when his wife sends him a note saying: "God forgive me ... if I should judge you." These...