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...been putting clients in their funds for 15 years," says Larry Ginsburg, a financial planner in Oakland, Calif. In the downturn of 2001-02, American Funds' Investment Co. of America ($78 billion) fell just 9.7% a year as the market dropped 17.2% a year. Since then, the fund has risen 14% a year, just a shade behind the market's 14.8% annual return. Growth Fund of America, more hard-charging, fell at the same rate as the market during the decline but since then has beat it handily, rising 19% a year. Over the past 15 years, $100 invested...
With the number of readers running into the thousands, online campus blogs have emerged as a new presence in the run-up to the Undergraduate Council (UC) elections this week.Blogs such as Cambridge Common and Team Zebra have risen to prominence in the last week, when the UC election race began, with their constant stream of coverage and ability to provide a more interactive forum for discussion than the traditional campus media.Daniel A. Koh ’07, the campaign manager for the John F. Voith ’07-Tara Gadgil ’07 ticket, said that...
...foreign fighters some dispersed, some were killed, some were captured," says Abu Marwan. And over the past year, U.S. operations against al-Zarqawi's organization have chipped away at its leadership structure and squeezed its sanctuaries. As a result, Iraqis who joined as low-level cell members have risen up the leadership chain. Abu Marwan says al-Zarqawi's aides told him their boss's three top lieutenants are all Iraqis. Another Iraqi operative is Abu Abdullah, who had worked on the security detail for one of Saddam's inner circle and joined an insurgent group formed from the Republican...
This means more than posting some ethnically-diverse photos on its website. The participation of women has risen dramatically over the past few years, but minority involvement remain largely elusive. One problem is that Harvard undergraduates are scattered among so many disparate campus groups that the IOP finds itself competing for priority with an endless list of ethnic and political societies...
Honda is just one of the foreign car manufacturers that are expanding in the U.S.--challenging GM, Ford and Chrysler in their own backyard. According to the Center for Automotive Research (CAR), the number of manufacturing jobs created by foreign-based automakers in the U.S. has risen 72% since 1993, to about 60,000. (The Big Three currently account for around 240,000 manufacturing jobs in the U.S., down from 340,000 in 1993.) The Asian companies have grown the fastest. Toyota, which plans to overtake GM soon as the world's largest automaker, has 11 U.S. plants and expects...