Word: riding
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...Commercial real estate investment trusts (REITS), with their 6%-plus yields and healthy underpinnings of rising rents and still reasonable property values, are a good option. So are foreign stock markets, including that of battered Japan, which has to turn up at some point. You could, of course, simply ride this thing out. But prices remain grossly inflated by most yardsticks. At best we are entering a long period of sub-10% annual average stock gains--as, ahem, Mr. Greenspan has been suggesting...
DIED. JUDY FLANNERY, 57, champion triathlete; struck and killed by an automobile while on a bike-training ride; near Poolesville, Maryland. The effervescent mother of five didn't take up running until she was 38. In the past 10 years, she had won six national and four world titles in the triathlon, an arduous combination of swimming, cycling and running...
After compiling 417 points and with only one player hitting under 80 for the day, there was little for Harvard to be happy about on the ride home from the HYP Tournament...
...does this academic engagement seem so out of the ordinary? Why is it that in so many classes students just try to close their eyes and hang on until the ride is over? We have all, at one time or another, calculated exactly how little work we need to do to get the minimal grade we could accept. Among seniors, this turns into speculation over how many credits can be frittered away before endangering our Harvard diplomas...
...both momentous and amusing, their reports bookended by tinkling music. But all that soothing and high-minded chat masks discord at the Washington-based radio network, which in the past few years has been hit with a series of racial- and sexual-discrimination lawsuits. "They've got a free ride over the years because they have this public image of being diverse," says Lynne Bernabei, whose law firm has represented 14 NPR clients. But NPR president Delano Lewis, one of the network's few high-ranking blacks, while acknowledging that there are problems, insists that "this place is no different...