Word: rashness
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...Phillips, managing director of Morningstar, the leading mutual-fund rating agency, says the rash of revelations about improper trading will force funds to be more transparent. "The fund industry is going to get the biggest scrubbing that it has ever gotten," Phillips says. Details about fund expenses, for example, could reveal whether market timing is inflating transaction costs. Academics estimate that late trading costs investors $400 million a year and market timing $4 billion to $5 billion. Aggressive fees for short-term trades would show that a fund is discouraging rapid trading, a signal of market timing...
Despite an effort by the new Office for Sexual Assault Prevention and Response last Monday to alert students to a rash of Rohypnol poisonings, the e-mail warning only trickled out to students through a variety of House lists and did not reach one House...
That particular flurry died down, but another rash of right-wing hypocrisy hit this year, first with the admission of William J. Bennett, Republican guru and author of such titles as The Book of Virtues and The Death of Outrage, that he had become addicted to gambling. Then came the double disgrace of Rush Limbaugh, who within two weeks was fired from his job as a football commentator because of racially insensitive comments (this is actually one of his more consistent moments), then announced that he was addicted to painkillers. This from a prince of American political culture, who once...
Despite the current rash of injuries, now the Crimson is remaining focused on its goals of turning ties into wins and competing for the Ivy title...
...photograph of the Prime Minister as an earnest young man, sitting at the knee of a bearded Afghan, whom the newspaper identified - wrongly - as a "Taliban terrorist," a picture that Erdogan quickly dismissed as "insignificant." Back in his office, Uzan rolls up his sleeves to display a rash of small scabs he says he received from well-wishers reaching out to him at a mass rally a few days earlier. "I will give up politics when the Turkish people don't want me," he says. Or presumably, if the money runs...