Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...based mutual funds have fallen 21.1%, from $234.3 billion to $185 billion. That was a slightly worse showing than the market as a whole, as measured by the Standard & Poor's Index of 500 stocks, which fell 20.9%. Fidelity's flagship Magellan fund, worth $12 billion in August, has shed 31% of its value. Pioneer II, a $4.4 billion fund three months ago, has lost...
...shrewdly avoided becoming a victim of Bourguiba's purges by convincing the President of his loyalty. "He managed to cultivate that 'I am your son' image," said one diplomat. Starting last summer, Ben Ali gave speeches to the party faithful in an attempt to build support and shed his reputation as a military...
...know that the virus was not epidemic in 1969, so we might be able to identify the changes between then and now that enabled it to spread," Garry says. If scientists can figure out how the AIDS virus might have changed, the puzzling case from the past might shed light on the future of the epidemic...
Some scientists are skeptical that the government, not to mention a private company, could undertake such a large project as tracking all the genes. Gilbert's reputation causes others to shed their doubts...
...QUESTION for women of career vs. family has been hashed and rehashed enough to deforest the entire Pacific Northwest. Now Hollywood has thrown in its two cents with Baby Boom, ostensibly a social satire that turns serious every once in a while in order to shed some light on this question. Unfortunately, Baby Boom is neither illuminating nor terribly funny...